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choreus

choreus · m

A foot

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Where it lives

Orator 4 · 2.16/10k
Institutio Oratoria 10 · 0.58/10k

What it meant

chŏrēus — Lewis & Short

chŏrēus or -īus, i, m., = xorei=os (sc. pou/s, pes), in verse,

I A foot, later called trochaeus,—˘, Cic. Or. 63, 212; Quint. 9, 4, 80; 9, 4, 82; 9, 4, 96; Marc. Vict. p. 2487 P.—

II In later metrists, for the earlier tribrachys, ˘˘˘, Diom. pp. 261 and 475 P.

In the wild

choreo Cicero, Orator 217
choreus Cicero, Orator 217
choreum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.102
choreum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.104
choreo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.111
choreo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.107

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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