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ὀρχηστής

orchestes · ὁ

dancer, pantomimic dancer

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ὀρχ-ηστής · orch-ēstēs — LSJ

dancer, pantomimic dancer

dancer, Il. 16.617, 24.261, IG 1(2).785,919, Epich. 171, Pi. Fr. 148, Pl. Euthd. 276d, OGI 51.45 (Ptolemais, iii B. C.), etc. ; later esp. pantomimic dancer, αὐτῷ τῷ ῥυθμῷ μιμοῦνται αἱ τῶν ὀ. Arist. Po. 1447a27, cf. Luc. Salt. 67; ὀ. οἱ ἐς τὰς μαχαίρας ὀρούοντες Democr. 228.

In the wild

ὀρχηστὰς · orchēstas Aristophanes, Peace 1 (DIORISIS sentence 547)
ὀρχηστῶν · orchēstōn Aristotle, Ars Poetica 1
ὀρχηστάς · orchēstas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2331)
ὀρχηστῇ · orchēstēi Epictetus, Discourses 4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6321)
ὀρχηστῇ · orchēstēi Epictetus, Discourses 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 6710)
ὀρχηστήν · orchēstēn Iliad 16.617

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