Choczin

See Chotin. Chodzko (chodz'kō), Alexander. Born July 11, 1804: died Dec. 20, 1891. A Polish poet, Orientalist, and Slavic scholar. His works include "Grammaire persane" (1852), translations from the Persian and Old Slavic, etc. Chodzko, Leonard Jacob. Born at Oborek, near Wilna, Ru ia, Nov. 6, 1800: died at Poitiers, France, March 12, 1871. A Polish historian, author of "La Pologne hist or i que, littéraire, etc." (1835-37), etc. Choëphori (kō-ef'ō-ri), The. [Gr. Χοηφόροι , persons offering χοαί , or libations, to the dead.] A tragedy of Æschylus: so named from the chorus bearing ve els with offerings to the tomb of Agamemnon. In it Orestes returns to Argos to avenge the murder of his father Agamemnon, and slays his mother Clytemnestra and her paramour Ægisthus. Chœrilus (ker'i-lus). [Gr. Χοιρίλος or Χοίριλ λος.] 1. An A then i an tragic poet, a contemporary of Æschylus. -2. A Samian poet of the 5th century в. с. Chœrilus (of Samos also), a younger contemporary of Hero dot us, and said by Plutarch to have been intimate with Lysander, is remarkable for having attempted a great novelty to relate in the epic form the very subject with which Hero dot us founded Greek history. His Perseis sang the struggle of Hellenedom with Persia.