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Pierides
[ pahy-er-i-deez ]
plural noun
, Classical Mythology.
- the Muses.
- nine Thessalian maidens who challenged the Muses to a singing contest, lost, and were changed into magpies for insulting the victors.
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The same thing happened since to the Pierides; so much has fable always imitated sacred history.
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The coupling often takes place in the air; thus among pierides.
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His own enrolled unrhythmical bardic troops (humorous mercenaries when Celts) do his trumpeting best, and offend not the Pierides.
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The nine daughters of Pierus, king of Emathia, were called Pierides.
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