coryphaeus - What does it mean?

Noun

Then the coryphæus' finishes the remaining part of the strophe. But when they have returned to order, Bacchus again interposes by beginning the antistrophe ?', which the ' coryphæus ought to have done.

The chorus, that is those members of the komos who have not become specialized as actors and continue singing and dancing, are headed by a coryphaeus , who sometimes addresses them, exhorting them to action, or to begin the song or the rite, or else anticipates or summarizes their words, or represents them in conversation with the actors.

Post-classical references to the famous ‘chorus-trainer’ Sannio indicate that his role extended to performing and thus taking the coryphaeus' role.¹² The ' coryphaeus was both leader and teacher, and in performance played a crucial role in setting the time that the other dancers followed.

Of the work which I have done, it becomes me not here to speak, save only as relates to the Satanic School, and its Coryphæus , the author of Don Juan.

Among those rare exceptions, fortunately, was that coryphaeus of modern thought in the humanities, Professor Roman Jakobson.

Indeed, when we make a comparative study of the Z?hirite school's known coryphaei of the different periods for their dogmatic point of view, we shall soon find out that the most divergent, diametrically opposed dogmatic branches could be combined as belonging to the Z?hirite fiqh school.