Note 542 — Chapter VIII · THE MAY-GAME
Reading edition
Jeanroy, 102, 387; Guy, 504; Paris, Journal des Savants (1892), 407. M. Paris points out that dances, other than professional, first appear in the West after the fall of the Empire. The French terms for dancing—baller, danser, treschier, caroler—are not Latin. Caroler, however, he thinks to be the Greek χοραυλεῖν, ‘to accompany a dance with a flute.’ But the French carole was always accompanied, not with a flute, but with a sung chanson.