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Headword: Choros
Adler number: chi,409
Translated headword: chorus, choir
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the body of singers in the churches. In the time of Constantius the son of Constantine the Great[1] and Flavianus the bishop of Antioch,[2] the choirs of the churches were divided into two parts, singing the psalms of David antiphonally. This began first in Antioch and spread to all the ends of the inhabited world.
Greek Original:
Choros: to sustêma tôn en tais ekklêsiais aidontôn. diêirethêsan de hoi choroi tôn ekklêsiôn eis duo merê epi Kônstantiou tou huiou Kônstantinou tou megalou kai Phlabianou, episkopou Antiocheias, dichê tous Dauitikous psalmous aidontes. hoper en Antiocheiai prôton arxamenon eis panta periêlthe tês oikoumenês ta perata.
Notes:
George the Monk, Chronicon 536.13-16.
[1] Ruled 337-361.
[2] Mentioned already at lambda 256.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; definition; geography; historiography; meter and music; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 July 2003@01:32:14.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword) on 16 July 2003@03:58:58.
Catharine Roth (added note) on 19 February 2005@12:24:45.
David Whitehead (typo; more keywords) on 21 April 2010@03:55:56.
David Whitehead on 12 November 2013@08:08:50.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 25 May 2014@02:15:22.

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