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In the first instance Melampus, the tanner, a drunken swaggerer, who had failed in business, had marched up the street at the head of a tipsy crew, and pointing with his thyrsus to the dark, undecorated house, had shouted: "Look at that dismal barrack! All that the Jew used to spend on decorating the street, he is saving up now in his money chest!"
In the first instance Melampus, the tanner, a drunken swaggerer, who had failed in business, had marched up the street at the head of a tipsy crew, and pointing with his thyrsus to the dark, undecorated house, had shouted: "Look at that dismal barrack! All that the Jew used to spend on decorating the street, he is saving up now in his money chest!"
That our feast may have the approval of sacred custom, bring hither that one of them most overcome by wine." A din of voices answered, "Here he is, here he is!" And from the floor where he had fallen, a youth was brought forward, so effeminately beautiful he might have passed for the drinking-god himself only the crown would have dropped from his head, and the thyrsus from his hand.
She was in Greek dress, and some yards away from her was the clay study a maenad with vine wreath, tambourine, thyrsus, and floating hair for which she was posing. Even David was dazzled by the image thus thrown out before him. With her own dress Louie Grieve seemed to have laid aside for the moment whatever common or provincial elements there might be in her strange and startling beauty.
Two of the flowers are picked Tim's father will not allow more and they are brought to help the decoration of the picnic meal. Carried thus over the shoulder of an eager, flushed child, the waratah suggests another idea: it represents exactly the thyrsus of the Bacchanals of ancient legends. The picnickers find that their appetites have gained zest from the sweet salty oysters.
Their heads were helmeted with triple brass, and impenetrable to the heaviest blows of the thyrsus of Bacchus. They drank with impunity, as if garlanded with parsley, and while commending the Bishop, who would drink naught save pure water, they rallied gaily Claude Beauharnais, who would not drink at all.
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