Pyrrhic Dance, the most famous war-dance of the ancient Greeks, especially the Spartans. The name was said to be derived from Pyrrichos, the inventor of the dance. The Pyrrhic measure in prosody consisted of two short syllables. See DANCING.
Pyrrhic Dance
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 509
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