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Headword:
*xoro/s
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.
*xoro/s: to\ su/sthma tw=n e)n tai=s e)kklhsi/ais a)|do/ntwn. dih|re/qhsan de\ oi( xoroi\ tw=n e)kklhsiw=n ei)s du/o me/rh e)pi\ *kwnstanti/ou tou= ui(ou= *kwnstanti/nou tou= mega/lou kai\ *flabianou=, e)pisko/pou *)antioxei/as, dixh= tou\s *dauitikou\s yalmou\s a)/|dontes. o(/per e)n *)antioxei/a| prw=ton a)rca/menon ei)s pa/nta perih=lqe th=s oi)koume/nhs ta\ pe/rata.
Notes:
George the Monk,
Chronicon 536.13-16.
[1] Ruled 337-361.
[2] Mentioned already at
lambda 256.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 July 2003@01:32:14.
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