maenad
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maena, maenae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
- Field:
- Agriculture
small sea-fish;
abl. sg.
Examples
- D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...pariter uinoque feruntur attonitae crinemque rotant ululantque Priapi maenades. o quantus tunc illis mentibus ardor concubitus, quae..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...petiere terram Thermodontiacae cateruae, positisque tandem leuibus sagittis Maenades factae. Sacer Cithaeron sanguine undauit Ophioniaque caede; Proetides siluas..." 
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...malorum signa; quid in nostris, nemoralis Delia, siluis Maenades hostiles Thebanaque numina regnant? ei mihi! cur penitus (simque..."- G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...canit Phryx curvo grave calamo, ubi capita Maenades ui iaciunt hederigerae, ubi sacra sancta acutis ululatibus agitant..." - P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...etiamnum voce canentis innumeras volucres anguesque agmenque ferarum maenades Orphei titulum rapuere triumphi; inde cruentatis vertuntur in Orphea..."