Corybantes
- plural of Corybant.
Example Sentences
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The priests of Cybele, called Corybantes, also Galli, were not admitted to their sacred functions without previous mutilation.
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
No mystic priest of the Corybantes could have worked himself up into a finer phrensy of language.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
In art the Corybantes appear, usually not more than two or three in number, fully armed and executing their orgiastic 212 dance in the presence of the Great Mother, her lions and Attis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Her attendants, the Corybantes, were wild, half demonic beings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
