Explained vocabulary

Choral dancer — χορευτής

χορευτής

khoreutēs

The Prayer addresses Dionysos as a dancer at Prayer.9.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
choral dancer

Meaning

The Prayer addresses Dionysos as a dancer at Prayer.9. The agent noun makes participation in the dance one of his invoked roles. It is not a finite instruction commanding the worshippers to dance.

Places to read

  1. Prayer to Musaeus · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

χορευτά

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. Prayer.9

Lexical references

LSJ χορευτής (n114419)