Corybant
noun
any of the spirits or secondary divinities attending Cybele with wild music and dancing.
Corybantes
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pluralof Corybant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Hence it is said that the Corybantes, with their mother Comba, came and settled at Athens: Κομβης ἑπτατοκου μετα μητερος.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
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 Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
The Phrygian Corybantes had been forced out of the hill-side like trees by Rhea, the great mother, and hence were called δενδροϕυεῖς.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Doth she of the Mountains work her ban, Or the dread Corybantes bind thee?
From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides
The first step, we learn, was taken by Rhea, who was so pleased with the art that she introduced it among the Corybantes in Phrygia and the Curetes in Crete.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
