CHORD

Grecian Architecture, a monument erected fn honour of the Choragus who gained the prize by the exhibition of the best musical or theatrical entertainment at the festivals of Bacchus. The Choragi were the heads of the ten tribes at Athens, who overlooked and arranged the games at their own expense. The prize was usually a tripod, which the victor was bound publicly to exhibit, for which purpose a building or column was usually erected. The remains of two very line monuments of this sort, viz. those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus, are still to be seen at Athens. [s. 241]