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Thyiad, Thyad Gr. Antiq.|ˈθaɪɪæd|, |ˈθaɪæd|
[a. Gr. θυιάς, stem θυιαδ- (pl. -άδες) a frenzied woman; properly adj. fem. from verbal root θυι-, æolic form of θυ- to rush, rage.]
A Bacchante.
[1710W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes xxvii. (1722) 134 The Women who accompany'd him [Bacchus] as his Priestesses, were call'd Mænades, from their Madness; Thyades, from their Impetuousness and Fury. 1835T. Mitchell Acharn. of Aristoph. 221 note, The older females figured as Thyades or Bacchantes. ]1846H. G. Robinson Odes of Horace ii. xix, The Thyads ever wantoning. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 390 Often on high Parnassus a roving Liber in hurried Frenzy the Thyiads drave. |