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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θύρσος θύρσω θύρσοι
Genitive θύρσου θύρσοιν θύρσων
Dative θύρσῳ θύρσοιν θύρσοις
Accusative θύρσον θύρσω θύρσους
Vocative θύρσε θύρσω θύρσοι

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

  • ὡσ οὐ κάμοιμ’ ἂν οὔτε νύκτ’ οὔθ’ ἡμέραν θύρσῳ κροτῶν γῆν· (Euripides, episode11)
  • κατάρχεται χόρευμα τυμπάνων ἄτερ, οὐ βρομίῳ κεχαρισμένα θύρσῳ . (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric1)
  • Εὔρυτον δὲ θύρσῳ Διόνυσοσ ἔκτεινε, Κλυτίον δὲ δᾳσὶν Ἑκάτη, Μίμαντα δὲ Ἥφαιστοσ βαλὼν μύδροισ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 6 2:5)
  • θύρσῳ δεινόσ, ὁ δὲ ῥοπάλῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1852)
  • ῥυῆναι δὲ Διονύσῳ τὸ ὕδωρ λέγουσι θύρσῳ πλήξαντι ἐσ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ Διονυσιάδα ὀνομάζουσι τὴν πηγήν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 12:2)

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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