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corda, v. chorda.
cordātē, adv., v. cordatus fin.
cordātus, a, um, adj. [cor, II. B.], wise, prudent, judicious, sagacious (mostly anteand post-class.): egregie cordatus homo, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18 (Ann. v. 335 Vahl.); cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 12, 2, v. 7; Vulg. Job, 34, 10.
Comp.: cordatior, Lact. 3, 20, 2.
Adv.: cordātē, with prudence, wisely (with docte and cate), Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 97; id. Poen. 1, 1, 3.
† cordax, ăcis, m., = κόρδαξ,
- I. the extravagant dance of Grecian comedy, distinguished by lively movement and wanton gesture, and by the rope which was kept passing through the hands of the dancers; the imitation of this dance was regarded as a mark of drunkenness or licentiousness: ducere, to dance it (κόρδακα ἕλκειν), Petr. 52, 9 (cf. Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 34).
Adject.: cordaces sententiae, i. e. tinnulae, staggering (together with modulatae), Fronto de Or. 2, p. 240 Mai.
- II. Transf. of the trochaic rhythm, in a loose translation of Aristotle (ὁ δὲ τροχαῖος κορδακικώτερος), on account of its hopping movement, Cic. Or. 57, 193; Quint. 9, 4, 88.