Let fall the thyrsus from thy hand, my mother's sire!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacchantes] Reference

A thyrsus in your hand, and the dappled hide of a deer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference

Come, O thou of golden face, brandishing your thyrsus along.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference

'The bearers of the thyrsus (bound with Ivy) are many, but the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Rachis not fragile; spikelets in cylindrical silvery thyrsus 18.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The Dionysian thyrsus, like the later withche's wand, was willow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helen of Troy] Reference

Many bear the thyrsus, or sacred Wand, made of reed ringed with ivy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference

Never shall I weary, night or day, of beating the earth with my thyrsus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacchantes] Reference

Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan and Satyrs] Reference

He is surrounded by his usual rout of attendants, one of whom bears a thyrsus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The faces of the two satyrs and the head of the thyrsus are also much mutilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Shall I hold the thyrsus in the right or left hand to look most like a Bacchanal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacchantes] Reference

Since I shall never tire, neither night nor day, striking the earth with the thyrsus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference

But shall I be more like a Bacchant holding the thyrsus in my right hand, or in this?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference

Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

For, as they say in the mysteries, 'Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the inspired'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Bacchante with a thyrsus and tambourine, and near her a little Satyr, who also holds a torch reversed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

"Bacchus, who, clad in fawnskins, leaps and bounds torch and thyrsus in the choral dance along Parnassus".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frogs] Reference

Faun, holding in his hands a thyrsus and a vase; the other a young woman conversing with an African slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

In the center of the temple Bacchus is seen standing, holding a thyrsus in his left hand, and a cup in his right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

Ye will all be put to flight-a shameful thing that they with the Bacchic thyrsus should rout your mail-clad warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacchantes] Reference

My friend, the time of storms is flying before the pretty child called April, who pursues it with his blooming thyrsus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference

Come, O king, brandishing thy golden thyrsus along the slopes of Olympus; restrain the pride of this bloodthirsty wretch!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacchantes] Reference

Then occurs another outflow from the thyrsus and cup, and another round of the bacchantes to the sound of drums and cymbals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

Ganymede or a Ceres or a Minerva gleamed wan and beautiful; beneath an ilex-tree a Bacchus leaned lightly on his marble thyrsus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calvert of Strathore] Reference

Another winged figure preceding the quadriga, with a thyrsus in his left hand, is in the act of seizing the bridle of one of the animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Hath strook with pointed thyrsus through my heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Nature of Things] Reference

Hercules and Bacchus, like the club and the thyrsus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference

The thyrsus was always used in the rites and festivities celebrated in honor of Bacchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nero Makers of History Series] Reference

I am intent on the subtle movements of my rod, round which my thoughts and fancies wind and blossom till they have made a thyrsus of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference