coryphaeus

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The exact word in greek is "κορυφαίος" (ko-ree-fe-os)

The chorus in Greek drama would move around the orchestra in a circular dance known as the "coryphaeus" while singing or reciting the odes. They provided commentary on the action of the play and reflected on the themes and messages being presented. This movement helped to enhance the performance and engage the audience.

An aphorism is a concise statement of a truth. At least 15 examples of aphorisms may be found in the play 'Antigone'. Chorus: 'Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man'. Antigone: 'Die I must - I knew that well [how should I not?] - even without thy edicts'. Theban King Creon: 'I would have thee know that o'erstubborn spirits are most often humbled'. Chorus: 'Nothing that is vast enters into the life of mortals without a curse'. Theban King Creon: 'What wound could strike deeper than a false friend?' Antigone: 'Hades...gives sleep to all...'. Chorus: 'Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate'. Teiresias: 'All men are liable to err; but when an error has been made, that man is no longer witless or unblest who heals the ill into which he hath fallen, and remains not stubborn'. Teiresias: 'Self-will, we know, incurs the charge of folly'. Theban King Creon: 'Well I know that no mortal can defile the gods'. Teiresias: ' How precious, above all wealth, is good counsel'. Theban King Creon: 'We must not wage a vain war with destiny'. Messenger: 'Fortune raises and Fortune humbles the lucky and unlucky from day to day'. Coryphaeus*: 'Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness and reverence toward the gods must be involate'. Coryphaeus: 'Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows'. *Chorus director.

James Moran has written:

'Farlow Wilson and the Young/Delcambre composing machine' -- subject(s): Young and Delcambre (Firm)

'Perpetual Albion' -- subject(s): Albion Press

'Excogitator extraordinary'

'Cox & Wyman Ltd' -- subject(s): Cox & Wyman Ltd

'William Caslon - 'Coryphaeus' of typefounders'

'Building your Kevlar canoe' -- subject(s): Canoes and canoeing, Plastics in boatbuilding, Design and construction

'Kniaghininisky's tape-operated composing machine'

'An heraldic alphabet'

'The Guild of Tallow Chandlers' -- subject(s): Guild of Tallow Chandlers

'NATSOPA, seventy-five years' -- subject(s): History, Labor unions, National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, Printers

'The story of Eric Gill's Joanna type'

'Printers and heraldry' -- subject(s): Book industries and trade, Heraldry, Printers' marks

'The Columbian press'

'The fenian's death'

'Stationers companies of the British Isles'

'Mardersteig, the maestro' -- subject(s): Officina Bodoni

'A brief essay on the printing press'

'Maximilien Vox'