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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORYPHAEUS (from Gr. Kopvil, the See also:top of the See also:head)  , in See also:Attic See also:drama, the See also:leader of the See also:chorus . Hence the See also:term (some-times in an Anglicized See also:form " coryphe ") is used for the See also:chief or leader of any See also:company or See also:movement . In 1856 in the university of See also:Oxford there was founded the See also:office of See also:Coryphaeus or Praecentor, whose See also:duty it was to See also:lead the musical performances directed by the See also:Choragus (q.v.) . The office ceased to exist in 1899 .

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