Pierides
Americanplural noun
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the Muses.
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nine Thessalian maidens who challenged the Muses to a singing contest, lost, and were changed into magpies for insulting the victors.
plural noun
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the Muses See Muse
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nine maidens of Thessaly, who were defeated in a singing contest by the Muses and turned into magpies for their effrontery
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My trust is in the kindly courtesy of my host Thorax, of him who to speed my fortune hath yoked this four-horse car of the Pierides, as friend for friend, and willing guide for guide.
From The Extant Odes of Pindar by Pindar
I wander afield, thriving in sturdy thought, Through unpathed haunts of the Pierides, Trodden by step of none before.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
Constitutionally vigorous and daily refreshed by draughts from the pellucid springs of the Pierides, they led a life of exuberant health, as the vital statistics of the neighbourhood would abundantly show.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various
The Pierides were signally defeated, and were transformed by the Muses into singing birds, as a punishment for having dared to challenge comparison with the immortals.
From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
"Thy singer has learned his art from a teacher heavenlier than the Pierides, and its name is Hope."
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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