maenada
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Maenas, Maenadis:
Feminine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Lesser
Bacchante, female votary of Bacchus; inspired/frenzied woman;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...rorantes sanguine ramos expirare solo; quaerenti nympha cruentas Maenadas atque hostem dixit saeuisse Lyaeum. dum gemit et planctu..."Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...Meliboea relinqui, et quam (quam saevi!) fecerunt maenada planctus. nec minor his tu nosse fidem vitamque maritis, dedere..."