thyrsus 的定义
plural thyr·si [thur-sahy]. /ˈθɜr saɪ/.
- Botany. a thyrse.
- Greek Antiquity. a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes twined with ivy and vine branches, borne by Dionysus and his votaries.
更多thyrsus例句
- There are “many thyrsus bearers, few mystics,” many are called, few chosen.
- Bacchus is generally represented as crowned with ivy or grape leaves and bearing an ivy-circled wand (the thyrsus).
- Sometimes the thyrsus is replaced by ivy leaves, which, like the fig, are symbolic of the triple creator.
- The figure of the god stands upon a pillar of three stones, and it bears a thyrsus from which depend two ribbons.
- Their heads were helmeted with triple brass, and impenetrable to the heaviest blows of the thyrsus of Bacchus.