Corybantian
- a word derived from Corybant.
Example Sentences
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Hence, to your Dindymus, and roam her heights With Corybantian eunuchs!
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
And as the Corybantian dances are not quite 'rational,' so the lyric poets are, so to speak, not quite 'all there.'
From Poetry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
This is proved by the Corybantian cure of motion, and by the practice of nurses who rock children in their arms, lapping them at the same time in sweet strains.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
Probably diverging from dances partly religious, partly warlike, as the Corybantian, came the war dances proper, of which there were various kinds; and from these resulted secular dances.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.
From Symposium by Jowett, Benjamin
