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Cŏrybas , antis, m., = Κορύβας.
I. Plur.: Cŏrybantes , ium, m. (sing. Corybas, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 148 al.), = Κορύβαντες, the priests of Cybele, whose religious service consisted in noisy music and wild armed dances, later interchanged with Curetes (q. v.), Hor. C. 1, 16, 8; Ov. F. 4, 210; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1877; Lact. 1, 13, 5; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 111; Diom. p. 474 P.—Sing., Juv. 5, 25; Mart. 1, 70, 10; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 150; id. Rapt. Pros. 1, 208.—Hence, Cŏrybantĭus , a, um, adj., of the Corybantes: “aera,” Verg. A. 3, 111: “sacra,” Arn. 5, p. 169.—
II. A son of Cybele, and father of the second Apollo, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 57.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.111
    • Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, 1877
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 3.23
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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