thyrsus

/thur-suhs/US // ˈθɜr səs //UK // (ˈθɜːsəs) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

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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.

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.