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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 269 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHORAGUS (the
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Lat. form of Gr. xopaybs or xop1176s, leader of the chorus)
  , the citizen chosen to undertake the expense of furnishing and instructing the chorus at the Dionysiac festivals at Athens (see LITURGY and
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FINANCE) . The name is given to an assistant to the professor of
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music at the university of Oxford, whose office was founded, with that of the professor, in 1626 by Dr William Heather .

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