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They move one to another in delicate responsive measures, now violent, now gentle, now in conflict, now in peace; yet ever weaving the pattern of a ritual dance, and obedient to the music of that invisible Choragus whom Boehme and Plotinus knew. What is that great wind which blows without, in continuous and ineffable harmonies? Part of you, practical man.
To the happy island on the sea, Where the beads are plenty, oh-oh-oh! Choir. Oh-oh-oh! where the beads are plenty, Oh-oh-oh! Choragus. While Singiri has kept us, oh, very long From our homes very long, oh-oh-oh.! Choir From our homes, oh-oh-oh! Oh-oh-oh! Choragus. And we have had no food for very long We are half-starved, oh, for so long! Bana Singiri! Choir. For so very long, oh-oh-oh!
The chief archon presided, over the performances; to him was awarded the selection of the candidates for the prize. Those chosen were allowed three actors by lot and a chorus, the expense of which was undertaken by the state, and imposed upon one of the principal persons of each tribe, called choragus. Thus, on one occasion, Themistocles was the choragus to a tragedy by Phrynichus.
Elizabeth Woolly, relict and administhrathrix of the late Mr. Timotheus Woolly, of High-street, in the city of Dublin, tailor, responded the choragus of the officers. 'Woolly I was thinkin' so, said the captive. 'I wisht I had her by the wool, bad luck to her!
"Men say it is not so grand as the statue of Zeus, that we have at Olympia," replied the boy. "Had you rather witness the sports of the gymnasia than the works of artists?" inquired Plato. The youth answered very promptly, "Ah, no indeed. I would rather gain one prize from the Choragus, than ten from the Gymnasiarch.
For I should be appointed as choragus for tragedies and should call on him to exchange with me, he would prefer to be choragus ten times rather than exchange once with me. And about my horsemanship, which he dares mention to you, neither fearing fate nor ashamed before you, there is not much to say.
He put up a tablet in memory of his success bearing the words: Themistokles of Phrearri was choragus, Phrynichus wrote the play, Adeimantus was archon. Yet he was popular, for he knew every one of the citizens by name, and gave impartial judgment in all cases referred to him as arbitrator.
A note informs us that this was originally sung by 'Messer Braccio Ugolino, attore di detta persona d' Orfeo. In place of this ode the revised text contains a long 'Coro delle Driadi, with two speeches in terza rima by the choragus, announcing and lamenting the death of Euridice, who as she fled from Aristeo has been stung in the foot by a serpent.
The choragus has fallen on his knees, and dips his head two or three times in an excavation in the ground, and a choir, also on their knees, repeat in dolorous tones the last words of a slow and solemn refrain. The words are literally translated: Choragus. Oh-oh-oh! the white man is going home! Choir. Oh-oh-oh! going home! Going home, oh-oh-oh! Choragus.
Then one, playing choragus, would break into a howl, and there would be a long anthem of howls until the forest rang with the terror; but the haste, the panting and the padding of feet were the most dreadful, because incessant; the thrust head would be whelmed, the sharp voice drowned in howls; the grey tide and the lapping of it never stopped.
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