The corpus record — Latin

maenades

maenades · f

the priestesses of Bacchus, Bacchantes

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Maenădes — Lewis & Short

Maenădes, um, f., = *maina/des [Gr. mai/nomai, to be inspired, rave],

I the priestesses of Bacchus, Bacchantes: hederigerae, Cat. 63, 23; 69: Threïciae, Ov. F. 4, 458: Ausoniae, the Italian Bacchantes, id. ib. 6, 504.—In sing.: Maenas, ădis, f., a Bacchante, Prop. 3, 6 (4, 7), 14; Sil. 3, 102; Pers. 1, 105.—

II Transf.

A Maenades Priapi, priestesses or worshippers of Priapus, matrons who made invocations to Priapus in the temples of the Bona Dea, Juv. 6, 315. —

B In sing.: Maenas, ădis, f., an inspired prophetess; of Cassandra, Prop. 3, 11, 64 (4, 12, 62); Sen. Agam. 718.

In the wild

Maenades Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.599
Maenades Statius, Thebais 9.628
Maenades Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.419
Maenades Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.22
Maenades Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.5.p4
Maenades Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.609

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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