The New International Encyclopædia/Chœrilus

CHŒRILUS, (Lat., from Gk., Choirilos) An Athenian dramatist of the late Sixth and early Fifth centuries B.C., the rival of Pratinas, Phrynichus, and Æschylus. Tradition says that he was preëminent in satyric dramas. The lexicographers attribute to him 160 plays in all, and report that he won thirteen victories, but scholars regard the number as too large. It has been conjectured that he was the first to reduce tragedies to writing.