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θύρσος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θύρσος θύρσου

Structure: θυρς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top, carried by the devotees of Dionysus
  2. the devotees themselves

Note

Hesychius defines it as κλάδος ‎(kládos, “stick, branch”), ῥάβδος ‎(rhábdos, “stick, rod”) with heterog. pl. qu/rsa

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "προέκειτο δὲ αὐτοῦ κρατὴρ Λακωνικὸσ χρυσοῦσ μετρητῶν δεκαπέντε καὶ τρίπουσ χρυσοῦσ, ἐφ’ οὗ θυμιατήριον χρυσοῦν καὶ φιάλαι δύο χρυσαῖ , κασίασ μεσταὶ καὶ κρόκου, περιέκειτο δ’ αὐτῷ καὶ σκιὰσ ἐκ κισσοῦ καὶ ἀμπέλου καὶ τῆσ λοιπῆσ ὀπώρασ κεκοσμημένη, προσήρτηντο δὲ καὶ στέφανοι καὶ ταινίαι καὶ θύρσοι καὶ τύμπανα καὶ μίτραι πρόσωπά τε σατυρικὰ καὶ κωμικὰ καὶ τραγικά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:119)

Synonyms

  1. the devotees themselves

    • γάρσανα (Hesychius defines it as φρύγανα ‎)
    • κύλλα (Hesychius defines it as σκύλαξ ‎)
    • κύβας (Hesychius defines the word as σορός ‎ (συρός ‎ in some codices))

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