thiasos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →thiasus, thiasi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
orgiastic Bacchic dance;
acc. pl.nom. sg.
Examples
Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...post acies rubrique novissima claustra aequoris hic resides thiasos, hic aera moventem udaque pampinea nectentem cornua vitta nunc..."Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...acies et eoi fercula regni duceret ac rursus thiasos et sacra moventem. hunc tibi vel posito venan pectine..."
Liber Undecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...debent, Sidonios ex quo per litora raptor turbasti thiasos, dignatus uirgine nostra terga premi et placidas falsum mugire..."Ecloga V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...Daphnis et Armenias curru subiungere tigris instituit; Daphnis thiasos inducere Bacchi, et foliis lentas intexere mollibus hastas. Vitis..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...parte ex alia florens volitabat Iacchus cum thiaso Satyrorum et Nysigenis Silenis, te quaerens, Ariadna, tuoque incensus amore..."