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
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..."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..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...canit Phryx curvo grave calamo, ubi capita Maenades ui iaciunt hederigerae, ubi sacra sancta acutis ululatibus agitant..."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..."