Gr. Antiq. [a. Gr. θυιάς, stem θυιαδ- (pl. -άδες) a frenzied woman; properly adj. fem. from verbal root θυι-, Æolic form of θυ- to rush, rage.] A Bacchante.
[1710. W. King, Heathen Gods & Heroes, xxvii. (1722), 134. The Women who accompany’d him [Bacchus] as his Priestesses, were call’d Mænades, from their Madness; Thyades, from their Impetuousness and Fury.
1835. T. Mitchell, Acharn. of Aristoph., 221, note. The older females figured as Thyades or Bacchantes.]
1846. H. G. Robinson, Odes of Horace, II. xix. The Thyads ever wantoning.
1871. R. Ellis, Catullus, lxiv. 390. Often on high Parnassus a roving Liber in hurried Frenzy the Thyiads drave.
