The corpus record — Latin

Thiasus

Thiasus · m

the Bacchic dance

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

thĭăsus — Lewis & Short

thĭăsus (thўăsus), i, m., = qi/asos,

I the Bacchic dance, a dance performed in honor of Bacchus, Verg. E. 5, 30; id. A. 7, 581; Stat. S. 3, 1, 41; Cat. 63, 28; 64, 253.

In the wild

thiasi Statius, Thebais 9.612
thiasisque Statius, Achilleis 1.827
thiasi Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 1.1.206
thiasis Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.423
thiasis Vergil, Aeneid 7.581
thiasique Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.844

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. thiasus (scan p. 714; entry #11852).

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