The victory ode is a song that is chorally performed. Choral performance is a combination of singing and dancing by a group that is ordinarily called a khoros, which means ‘group of singers/dancers’. But this ordinary nomenclature is not used in the victory odes of Pindar: in the poetics of his songmaking, the group is called kōmos ‘revel, reveling, band of revelers, occasion for reveling’, as here at I.8.3.