Didascaly

Didascaly, Greek Antiquity [modern ad. Greek διδασκαλία instruction, teaching; in plural as in quotation. So modern French didascalie.]Oxford English Dictionary (2003)

In The Catalogues of the ancient Greek Dramas, with their writers, dates, etc., such as were compiled by Aristotle and others.James Murray, Editor (1897) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Clarendon Press Oxford The instruction of the chorus in ancient Greek theatre.Encyclopædia Britannica (2010) In ancient Greek theatre, the performance of a tetralogy.August Witzschel (1850) The Athenian Stage, F. & J. Rivington, London (translated from the German, digitized by Google Books)

Examples 1831 T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle vi. M887 70 "Did not they give to melopoeia, , and the sundry forms of didascalies [printed -ics], the precedence of all other matters, civil and military?" 1849 Grote Greece 11. lxvii. (1862) VI. 26 "The first, second and third [tetralogies] are specified in the Didaskalics or Theatrical Records."

See also Didascaliae Didascalia Apostolorum

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