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These are Corybants who might have flocked in the pagan train of Cybele.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lys. Now in the market you see them like Corybants, jangling about with their armour of mail.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

Her statue, carried in a splendid litter, robed with precious stuffs, curled and farded, passed through the streets of the city, with its guard of mummers and Corybants.

From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent

Hermes received me, and gave me my place next to a group of Gods whose alien origin left them in a rather doubtful position—Pan, the Corybants, Attis, and Sabazius.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)