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- | As to the rites of Dionysus, you know, without my telling you, that they consisted in dancing from beginning to end. Of the three main types of dance, the cordax, the sicinnis, and the emmelia, each was the invention and bore the name of one of the Satyrs, his followers. Assisted by this art, and accompanied by these revellers, he conquered Tyrrhenians, | + | As to the rites of Dionysus, you know, without my telling you, that they consisted in dancing from beginning to end. Of the three main types of dance, the cordax[1], the sicinnis[2], and the emmelia[3], each was the invention and bore the name of one of the Satyrs, his followers. Assisted by this art, and accompanied by these revellers, he conquered Tyrrhenians, |
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+ | >[1] Cordax | This was a joyful, brisk dance accompanied sometimes, we are told, with wanton gestures, and this type of dance belonged properly to comedy. The Bacchanalian dances were of thie kind.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, | ||
+ | >[2] Sicynnis | This was a satirical dance, wherein the grave and brisk are intermixed.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, | ||
+ | >[3] Emmeleia | This was a grave and solemn dance.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, | ||
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