The corpus record

ὄρχ-ησις

orchesis · ἡ

dancing, the dance

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Where it lives

Laws 38 · 3.68/10k
Symposium 3 · 3.15/10k
Ars Poetica 2 · 1.98/10k
Meditations 3 · 1.03/10k
Enneads 12 · 0.57/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ὄρχ-ησις · orch-ēsis — LSJ

dancing, the dance, pantomimic dancing

dancing, the dance, Epich. 171 ; ἐς ὄρχησιν ἀνίστασθαι Hdt. 1.202 ; esp. pantomimic dancing, Id. 6.129 ; δεινὰ ἐποιοῦντο πάσας τὰς ὀ. ἐν ὅπλοις εἶναι X. An. 6.1.11 ; ἐκπονεῖν Plb. 4.20.12 : a part of ἡ γυμναστική, acc. to Pl. Lg. 795e ; ἡ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις ὄ. Id. Cra. 406d ; ὄ. ἐνόπλιος, ἐναγώνιος ὄ., Luc. Salt. 8, 32, POxy. 1241 v 27 (ii A. D.), etc.; περὶ Ὀρχήσεως, title of work by Lucian ; cf. Ath. 1.14dsq., 14.630bsqq., Poll. 4.95 sq.

In the wild

ὄρχησις · orchēsis Aristotle, Ars Poetica 26
ὀρχήσει · orchēsei Aristotle, Ars Poetica 2
ὄρχησιν · orchēsin Aristotle, Politics 1339a (DIORISIS sentence 3047)
ὄρχησιν · orchēsin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2331)
ὄρχησίν · orchēsin Herodotus, Histories 1.202.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1443)
ὄρχησιν · orchēsin Herodotus, Histories 6.129.4 (DIORISIS sentence 6950)

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