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‖ thiasus, thiasos Gr. Antiq.|ˈθaɪəsəs, -ɒs|
[L. thiasus, a. Gr. θίασος the Bacchic dance.]
A company assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods (esp. of Bacchus) with dancing and singing. So thiasarch |ˈθaɪəsɑːk| [ad. Gr. θιασάρχης], the leader of the thiasus; ˈthiasite |-aɪt|, ˈthiasote |-əʊt| [ad. Gr. θιασίτης, θιασώτης], a member of the thiasus.
1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 569 note, The president of it was styled a thiasarch. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §390 (ed. 2) 507 Representations of Dionysus and his thiasotes..were got up. Ibid. §367. 460 Dionysus bringing back Hephæstus in the thiasus (at which are also Marsyas and Comœdia). 1873Contemp. Rev. XXI. 568 The ‘eranists’ are termed ‘thiasotes’ or ‘thiasites’. |