Choristia

S. E. Kryzhanovsky translates chorister (choir member) as “separated, special, official” - participle from the verb chorizō “I separate, separate”, for example: “παρά chori τῶν περὶ θεῖον … ποιητῶς ἐδικάσ θητε (You, choreographers under the divine... were judged) ", "μόνοι σ᾽ ὑπὲρ ὅλα συγχωρισθῆναι ἔγραψεν (he wrote only for you, to separate you, to separate you, to transfer them into complete dependence), ... καὶ οὐκ εἰ ποῦσιν ἡγεμᾶν … τε δὴ φαιφῇ φωνῆτος … ᾿Αρισείας ἄνδρα (... but they won’t tell the ruler …… Arisia, a man of the voice-torch)” [Kryzhanovsky 2009a, 062b].

The authors indicate two different meanings of the term - in relation to Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece: an aristocrat, who occupied second place among the three highest social classes, the class of court singers of the 1st–3rd centuries AD. e., which formed part of the state aristocracy, usually from the names of the senatorial class. Representatives of this profession were also called castrati or singers of the second group. The term choerastes, choerus, choers also denoted castrated sacred boys, but initially it simply defined the class of professional court artists (both singers and musicians, including flute players) at temples; This is precisely the situation that developed in Rome after Octavian Augustus. This composition of the court was established after the victory of Augustus over Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC.