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The Corybantes were called so from their disorderly dancing as they went along.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea

The Corybantes promised eternal life to the Initiates of the Mysteries of Cybele and Atys.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

With these Phœnicians came a sort of men skilled in the Religious Mysteries, Arts, and Sciences of Phœnicia, and settled in several places under the names of Curetes, Corybantes, Telchines, and Id�i Dactyli.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

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 Hurst, Fannie

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