Corybant
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Corybantes,
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Corybants
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Classical Mythology. any of the spirits or secondary divinities attending Cybele with wild music and dancing.
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an ancient Phrygian priest of Cybele.
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Origin of Corybant
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Corybant- (stem of Corybās ) < Greek Korybant- (stem of Korýbās )
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Treat me as a Corybant, a fanatic: and do you go forward on this road of yours.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater
Corybant, kor′i-bant, n. a priest of Cybele, whose rites were accompanied with noisy music and wild dances:—Eng. pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The gold figure of a Cybele in a gold chariot raced with eight reproductions of herself in an octagonal mirror-lined foyer, and a steady stream of Corybantes bought admission tickets at twenty-five cents a Corybant.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
That's not sane, you know—it's the intoxication of the Corybant!
From Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson
Or Cybeles franticke rites, the wild dances of the Corybantes, priestesses of Cybele, or Rhea, the wife of Chronos and mother of the gods.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
It was more like a train of Corybantes than anything I had seen.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
The Corybantes, the Bacchantes, the rude primitive tragedians with their procession and goat-song, and the whole paraphernalia of the Panathenaea, which appear so antiquated and peculiar, have their parallel now.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Her attendants, the Corybantes, were wild, half demonic beings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
Dance or die; it is fury,—the Corybantes, the Maenads, the—Ho, ho! more wine! the Sabbat of the Witches at Benevento is a joke to this!
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
These are Corybants who might have flocked in the pagan train of Cybele.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hermes received me, and gave me my place next to a group of Gods whose alien origin left them in a rather doubtful position—Pan, the Corybants, Attis, and Sabazius.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
Her statue, carried in a splendid litter, robed with precious stuffs, curled and farded, passed through the streets of the city, with its guard of mummers and Corybants.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
Lys. Now in the market you see them like Corybants, jangling about with their armour of mail.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
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