Corybants

Outside in the beautiful meadows of the valley and amongst the plane trees that lined the road from Kastro, pilgrims and Corybants had been arriving for two days, some of them from distant parts indeed.

Archive 2007-12-01 Laurie Constantino 2007

Outside in the beautiful meadows of the valley and amongst the plane trees that lined the road from Kastro, pilgrims and Corybants had been arriving for two days, some of them from distant parts indeed.

Novel Food: Corelli's Mandolin and Recipe for Cephalonian Meat Pie (Κεφαλονίτικη Κρεατόπιτα) Laurie Constantino 2007

Like Corybants jingling (poor sots) fully armoured, they noisily round on their promenade strolled.

Lysistrata 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Her statue, carried in a splendid litter, robed with precious stuffs, curled and farded, passed through the streets of the city, with its guard of mummers and Corybants.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

Hermes received me, and gave me my place next to a group of Gods whose alien origin left them in a rather doubtful position -- Pan, the Corybants, Attis, and Sabazius.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

Nay, I have been told that in the parts over sea, towards the North and West, he is worshipped, just as at Eleusis, with pipes and timbrels and brazen cymbals and all excess of music; and there they dance in his service and suffer the ecstasies of the Mænads and Corybants in the Dionysiac revel.

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

Cybele > (Or Rhea, wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter, a goddess worshipped by the Corybants with frenetic music and dancing.

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser