Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pyrrhicha

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PYRR'HICHA and PYRR'HICHE (πυρρίχη). A Greek war-dance of Doric origin, performed to the sound of the flute in rapid measure, the performers wearing their armour and imitating by their motions the attack and defence of combatants in a battle. The illustration (Pyrrhicha/1.1), which is copied from a fictile vase, is generally received as a representation of the old Pyrrhic dance, as executed by the Greeks; an imitation of which was introduced at Rome by Julius Caesar, and also exhibited by succeeding emperors. Suet. Jul. 39. Nero, 12. Spart. Hadr. 19.

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  Pyrrhicha/1.1