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