The name of dancer was so honourable, as to be given to some of their gods.

Statues are recorded to have been erected to good dancers.

Socrates is said to have admired dancing so much, as to have learnt it in his old age.
Dancing, on the other hand, was but little regarded at Rome.

It was not admitted even within the pale of accomplishments.

It was considered at best as a sorry and trivial employment.