cordax

cordax, ăcis, m., = κόρδαξ,

• the extravagant dance of Grecian comedy, distinguished by lively movement and wanton gesture, and by the rope which was kept passing through the hands of the dancers; the imitation of this dance was regarded as a mark of drunkenness or licentiousness: ducere, to dance it (κόρδακα ἕλκειν), Petr. 52, 9 (cf. Ter. Ad. 752).—Adject.: cordaces sententiae, i. e. tinnulae, staggering (together with modulatae), Fronto de Or. 2, p. 240 Mai.—
• II Transf. of the trochaic rhythm, in a loose translation of Aristotle (ὁ δὲ τροχαῖος κορδακικώτερος), on account of its hopping movement, Cic. Or. 57, 193; Quint. 9, 4, 88.

cordāx, dācis, m. (κόρδαξ), der ausgelassene Tanz des Chores der alten griech. Komödie, mit raschen lebhaften Bewegungen und unanständigen Gebärden, bei dem ein Seil durch die Hände der Tanzenden lief, den aber außer der Komödie zu tanzen als ein Zeichen von Trunkenheit oder gänzlicher Sittenlosigkeit galt, der Kordax, cordacem ducere (κόρδακα έλκειν), den K. aufführen, Petron. 52, 9 (dafür Ter. adelph. 752: tu inter eas restim ductans saltabis). Vgl. die Auslgg. zu Aristoph. Nub. 540. W. Schneiders Attisches Theaterwesen, S. 229 ff. – übtr., v. lebhaften trochäischen Rhythmus, nach flüchtiger Übersetzung des Aristoteles (der bloß sagt: ὁ δὲ τροχαῖος κορδακικώτερος), der Taumler, Cic. or. 193. Quint. 9, 4, 88. – cordaces sententiae, taumelnde = haltlose, Fronto de or. 1. p. 156, 9 N. zw.

1 cordāx, (16) ācis, m. (κόρδαξ), ¶ 1 le cordace [danse licencieuse] : Petr. 52, 8 ¶ 2 [fig.] [en parlant du rythme trochaïque] manquant de tenue : Cic. Or. 193 ; Quint. 9, 4, 88.

2 cordāx, ācis (cor), c. cordatus : Mamert. An. 3, 10.

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cordax acis, m

• , κόρδαξ(a wanton dance); of the trochee, the dancing metre.

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Cordax

(κόρδαξ). An extremely indecent dance peculiar to the comic chorus. (See chorus; comoedia.) The gestures, and, indeed, the costumes, of the choreutae were such that even the Athenians considered it justifiable only at the festival of Dionysus, when every one was allowed to be drunk in honour of the god; for if an Athenian citizen danced the cordax sober and unmasked, he was looked upon as the most shameless of men and forfeited altogether his character for respectability (Theophr. Charact. 6). Aristophanes himself, who did not much scruple at violating common decency, claims some merit for his omission of the cordax in the Clouds, and for the more modest attire of his chorus in that play. According to Athenaeus, the cordax was a sort of ὑπόρχημα, or imitative dance, in which the choreutae expressed the words of the song by comic gesticulations. Such a dance was the hyporcheme of the Spartan δεικελίκται—buffoons, whose peculiar mimic gestures seem to have formed the basis of the Dorian comedy, which prevailed in Megaris, and which probably was the parent stock, not only of the Attic, but also of the Sicilian and Italian comedy. The chief features of the cordax are probably preserved in the Neapolitan tarantella.