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bacchantes

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bacchantes: see maenads maenads (mē`nădz), in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, female devotees of Dionysus.
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It contained one of the precious stockings; and half opening it, I revealed to Sylvia's astonished eyes the cunning little frieze of Bacchus and Ariadne, followed by a troop of Satyrs and Bacchantes, which the artist had designed to encircle one of the white columns of that little marble temple which sat before me.
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