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bacchantes

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bac·chan·tes  (b-kntz, -kän-, -knts, -känts)
n.
A plural of bacchant.


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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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