chŏrus (noun M) : χορός [cf. Lidd. and Scott under χορός].
* A dance in a ring, a choral dance, a dance, = chorea: chorus et cantus,Tib. 1, 7, 44; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 6, 70. Nympharum leves chori,Hor. C. 1, 1, 31: ferre pedem choris,id. ib. 2, 12, 17; Tib. 2, 1, 56: choros agere,Prop. 2, 3, 18: agitare,Verg. G. 4, 533: ducere,Hor. C. 1, 4, 5; 4, 7, 6: exercere,Verg. A. 1, 499: indicere,id. ib. 11, 737: instaurare,Stat. Achill. 4, 145: ostentare,id. ib. 2, 148 sq.: celebrare,Sen. Herc. Oet. 594: nectere,id. ib. 367: dare,Mart. 4, 44.
* The harmonious motions of the heavenly bodies (cf. chorea), Tib. 2, 1, 88.
* Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a troop or band of dancers and singers, a chorus, choir: saltatores, citharistas, totum denique comissationis Antonianae chorum, etc.,Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 15; Cat. 63, 30: Phoebi chorus,Verg. E. 6, 66; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 5, 20; Hor. C. S. 75: chorus Dryadum,Verg. G. 4, 460: Nereidum,id. A. 5, 240: Idaei chori,id. ib. 9, 112: Pierius,Mart. 12, 3: canorus,Juv. 11, 163; Ov. M. 3, 685.—Of the chorus in tragedy: actoris partes chorus officiumque virile Defendat, etc.,Hor. A. P. 193; cf. id. ib. 283; id. Ep. 2, 1, 134; Gell. 19, 10, 12.
* The heavenly bodies moving in harmony (cf. supra, I. b.): Pleiadum,Prop. 3 (4), 5, 36. Hor. C. 4, 14, 21: astrorum,Stat. Achill. 1, 643.
* In gen., a multitude, band, troop, crowd: chorus juventutis,Cic. Mur. 24, 49: philosophorum,id. Fin. 1, 8, 26; id. Att. 14, 8, 1; so, vatum,Hor. C. 4, 3, 15: scriptorum,id. Ep. 2, 2, 77: puellarum,id. C. 2, 5, 21: (piscium),Sen. Agam. 452: virtutum,Cic. Off. 3, 33, 116; id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13 (hence, Engl. choir, quire; Fr. choeur; Ital. coro).

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