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|Definition=impf. [[ὠρχούμην]]: Ep. 3pl. pres. [[ὀρχεῦνται]], impf. [[ὠρχεῦντο]] (v. infr.): fut. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ὀρχήσομαι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>1178</span>, etc.: aor. ὠρχησάμην <span class="bibl">Anacr. 69</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.129</span> ; inf. ὀρχήσασθαι Hom. (v. infr.):—Pass., aor. ὠρχήθην <span class="bibl">Euph.87</span>:—[[dance]], ἠΐθεοι καὶ παρθένοι . . ὠρχεῦντ' <span class="bibl">Il.18.594</span> ; Ἅλιον καὶ Λαοδάμαντα κέλευσε μουνὰξ ὀρχήσασθαι <span class="bibl">Od.8.371</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">14.465</span> ; πόσσ' ἁπαλοῖσιν ὀρχεῦνται <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>4</span> ; <b class="b3">ὀ. πρὸς ὅπλα</b>, of the Pyrrhic dance, Demetr.Sceps. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.4.155b</span> ; ἐν ῥυθμῷ <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.3.10</span> ; <b class="b3">ὀρχεῖσθαι ταῖς χερσί</b> (cf. [[χειρονομέω]]) <span class="bibl">Antiph.113.1</span> : c. acc. loci, <b class="b3">δώσω τοι Τεγέην ποσσίκροτον ὀρχήσασθαι</b> [[to dance in]] or [[on]], Orac. ap. <span class="bibl">Hdt. 1.66</span>, cf. Euph.l.c. (Pass.): also c. acc. cogn., <b class="b3">Λακωνικὰ σχημάτια ὀρχεῖσθαι</b> [[dance]] Laconian steps, <span class="bibl">Id.6.129</span> ; ὀ. τὸ Περσικόν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>8.4.12</span> ; ὀ. πρὸς τὸν αὐλὸν σχήματα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Smp.</span>7.5</span> ; ὀ. τὸν ὅρμον Luc.<span class="title">Salt.</span>II sq., etc.:—Pass., τῶν ὕμνων οἳ μὲν ὠρχοῦντο οἳ δὲ οὐκ ὠρχοῦντο <span class="bibl">Ath.14.631d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[represent by dancing]] or [[pantomime]], <b class="b3">ὀρχεῖσθαι τὴν τοῦ Κρόνου τεκνοφαγίαν, ὀ. τὸν Αἴαντα</b>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Salt.</span>80</span>, <span class="bibl">83</span>, cf. <span class="title">AP</span>9.248 (Boeth.), <span class="bibl">11.254</span> (Lucill.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[leap]], [[bound]], ὀρχεῖται δὲ καρδία φόβῳ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>166</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Anaxandr.59</span> ; <b class="b3">Θεσσαλίη ὠρχήσατο</b> Thessaly [[shook]], [[trembled]], <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Del.</span>139</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Act. ὀρχέω, [[make to dance]] (v. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>407a</span>), is used by Ion Trag.<span class="bibl">50</span>, <b class="b3">ἐκ τῶν ἀέλπτων μᾶλλον ὤρχησεν φρένας</b> [[made]] my heart [[leap]] (so codd. Ath., [[ὤρχησαι]] Nauck); but [[ὀρκῆσι]] in <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>1179</span> is a barbarism for [[ὀρχῆται]].</span>