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Maenădes

（Μαινάδες). A name of the Bacchantes, from μαίνομαι, “to rave,” because they were frenzied in the worship of Dionysus. See Bacchantes.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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