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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Such a fate as this was Dante's, By defeat and exile maddened; Thus were Milton and Cervantes, Nature's priests and Corybantes, By affliction touched and saddened.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And where shall a man walk, converse with whom, in what province, city, and not meet with Signior Deliro, or Hercules Furens, Maenads, and Corybantes?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Porphyry mentions some pillars, preserved in Crete, on which the ceremonies observed by the Corybantes in their sacrifices were recorded.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 by Various
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
For heaven-possessed, O lady, or whether by Pan, or by Hecate, or by the venerable Corybantes, or by the mother who haunts the mountains, thou art raving.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
