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thyrsus
[ thur-suhs ]
noun
- Botany. a thyrse.
- Greek Antiquity. a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes twined with ivy and vine branches, borne by Dionysus and his votaries.
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Origin of thyrsus1
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Example Sentences
There are “many thyrsus bearers, few mystics,” many are called, few chosen.
Bacchus is generally represented as crowned with ivy or grape leaves and bearing an ivy-circled wand (the thyrsus).
Sometimes the thyrsus is replaced by ivy leaves, which, like the fig, are symbolic of the triple creator.
The figure of the god stands upon a pillar of three stones, and it bears a thyrsus from which depend two ribbons.
Their heads were helmeted with triple brass, and impenetrable to the heaviest blows of the thyrsus of Bacchus.
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