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θύρσος

thursos · ὁ

wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top

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Where it lives

  • Bacchae 19 · 25.26/10k
  • Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
  • Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
  • Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
  • Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

What it meant — LSJ

wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top, devotees

wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top, carried by the devotees of Dionysus, E. Ba. 80 (lyr.), SIG 1109.138, Hero Spir. 2.9, etc.; also of the devotees themselves, Sch. E. Hec. 261.

II

= κλάδος, ῥάβδος, Hsch. (Prob. a loan-word.)

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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