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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

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

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

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.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert