A.lead a chorus, “χορῷ” Simon.147, Pl.Grg.482b (cf. signf.11): c. gen., “χ. ἡμῶν” Id.Lg.654a: hence metaph., take the lead in a matter, c. gen., “τούτου τοῦ λόγου” Id.Tht.179d.
II. of the χορηγός, defray the cost of bringing out a chorus at the public festivals, abs., “χορηγεῖν, τριηραρχεῖν, εἰσφέρειν” D.18.257; ἐχόρευες, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐχορήγουν interpol. ib.265; “χ. λαμπρῶς” Antipho 2.2.12, etc.; “κάλλιον” Isoc.19.36: freq. in Inscrr., Θεμιστοκλῆς ἐχορήγει: Φρύνιχος ἐδίδασκεν: Ἀδείμαντος ἦρχεν ap.Plu.Them.5, cf. IG12.770, etc.; also “ὁ δῆμος ἐχορήγει” IG22.3079, al.: c. acc. cogn., “χορηγίας χ.” Antipho 5.77, Lys.12.20; “[τῇ φυλῇ]” Luc.Dem.Enc.45; “χ. Ἀθηναίων” Plu.2.724b: freq. with a word to denote the occasion, “Λήναια χορηγῶν” Ar.Ach.1155 (lyr.); “χ. παισὶν Διονύσια” D.21.64; “εἰς Ἀπολλώνια” IG11(2).106.1 (Delos, iii B. C.); “ἀνδράσι χ. ἐς Διονύσια” Lys. 21.2; χ. κωμῳδοῖς, πυρριχισταῖς, ib.4; “τραγῳδοῖς” Is.6.60; “κωμῳδοῖς” IG22.3090 (less freq. with the Art. added, “χ. τὰ Διονύσια τοῖς τραγῳδοῖς” Arist.Fr.630); also “Παναθηναίοις χ.” D.21.156:—Pass., to have choragi found for one, “χορηγοῦσιν μὲν οἱ πλούσιοι, χορηγεῖται δὲ ὁ δῆμος” X.Ath.1.13; ἄριστα χορηγοῦνται οἱ παῖδες are well found by their choragus, Antipho 6.13.
2. metaph., minister to, “χ. ταῖς σεαυτοῦ ἡδοναῖς” Aeschin.3.240; “ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις” Luc.Par.12; “πρὸς ἐπαινον” Lib. Or.18.7; πρὸς μῆκος λόγου ib.13.26.
3. metaph. also,
a. c. acc. pers., furnish abundantly with a thing, esp. with supplies for war, “χ. τὸ στρατόπεδον τοῖς ἐπιτηδείοις” Plb.3.68.8, cf. 49.11, 52.7, etc.; “χρήμασι πρός τι” Id.5.42.7:—Pass., to be well supplied, “τοῖς ἐκτὸς ἀγαθοῖς κεχορηγημένος” Arist.EN1101a15, cf. 1179a11: abs., κάλλιστα κεχορηγημένος best furnished, Id.Pol.1288b14; κεχ.