Chorus, ri, m. g. Cic.A company of singers or dauncers: sometime an other assemble.Iuuentutis choro stipari.Cic.To be enuironed with a company of young men.Philosophorum è choro aliquem tollere.Cic.Out of the number of Philosophers.Phœbi chorus.Virg. Musæ dicuntur. The muses.Scriptorum chorus omms amat nemus & fugit vrbes. Hor. All writers lotle, &c.Virtutum chorus.Cic.The whole company of vertues.Aequalis chorus.Virg.A company of like age.Chori circulares. Bud. A round: when men dannce and sing taking handes round.Fœminei chori.Ouid.Idæi chori: Galli cybeles sacerdotes. Vitg. Plaudens chorus.Stat. Plebems chorus. Ouid.Semiuiri chori. Sil. The companies of Cybels Priestes gelded.Virgineus chorus. Oui. A company of maidens singing and daunsing. Agitare choros.Virg.To daunce in companies.Celebrare choros. Sen. To keepe daunsings.Ducere choros. Horat. To leade daunces.Exercere choros.Virg.To daunce.Pedem ferre choris. Horat. To daunce.Indicere choros Bacchi.Virg.To appoint daunfing dayes to the honour of Batchus.Inserere aliquem choro alicui. Hor. To put into a company.Instaurare choros.Virg. Lasciuit chorus. Sen. Ludere in speciem chori.Ouid.Ostentare choros.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
chŏrus, i, m., = xoro/s [cf. Lidd. and Scott under xoro/s]. I.A dance in a ring, a choral dance, a dance, = chorea: chorus et cantus, Tib. 1, 7, 44; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 6, 70: Nympharum leves chori, Hor. C. 1, 1, 31: ferre pedem choris, id. ib. 2, 12, 17; Tib. 2, 1, 56: choros agere, Prop. 2, 3, 18: agitare, Verg. G. 4, 533: ducere, Hor. C. 1, 4, 5; 4, 7, 6: exercere, Verg. A. 1, 499: indicere, id. ib. 11, 737: instaurare, Stat. Achill. 4, 145: ostentare, id. ib. 2, 148 sq.: celebrare, Sen. Herc. Oet. 594: nectere, id. ib. 367: dare, Mart. 4, 44.—b.The harmonious motions of the heavenly bodies (cf. chorea), Tib. 2, 1, 88. —II.Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a troop or band of dancers and singers, a chorus, choir: saltatores, citharistas, totum denique comissationis Antonianae chorum, etc., Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 15; Cat. 63, 30: Phoebi chorus, Verg. E. 6, 66; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 5, 20; Hor. C. S. 75: chorus Dryadum, Verg. G. 4, 460: Nereidum, id. A. 5, 240: Idaei chori, id. ib. 9, 112: Pierius, Mart. 12, 3: canorus, Juv. 11, 163; Ov. M. 3, 685.—Of the chorus in tragedy: actoris partes chorus officiumque virile Defendat, etc., Hor. A. P. 193; cf. id. ib. 283; id. Ep. 2, 1, 134; Gell. 19, 10, 12. —B.The heavenly bodies moving in harmony (cf. supra, I. b.): Pleiadum, Prop. 3 (4), 5, 36; Hor. C. 4, 14, 21: astrorum, Stat. Achill. 1, 643.—C. In gen., a multitude, band, troop, crowd: chorus juventutis, Cic. Mur. 24, 49: philosophorum, id. Fin. 1, 8, 26; id. Att. 14, 8, 1; so, vatum, Hor. C. 4, 3, 15: scriptorum, id. Ep. 2, 2, 77: puellarum, id. C. 2, 5, 21: (piscium), Sen. Agam. 452: virtutum, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 116; id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13 (hence, Engl. choir, quire; Fr. choeur; Ital. coro).