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  • "Praise to you, Exhilarating Thelxiepeia, and praise to you, likewise, dark son of Thyone."

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Dionysus, having established his worship in various parts of the world, descended to the realm of shades in search of his ill-fated mother, whom he conducted to Olympus, where, under the name of Thyone, she was admitted into the assembly of the immortal gods.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Hail to thee, Dionysus Eiraphiotes, with thy mother Semele, whom men call Thyone.

    The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878

  • Daphne, and, much as she wished to speak to him, she forced herself to remain silent, that the tones of her voice might not betray how deeply she was suffering with him; but he himself now longed for a kind word from her lips, and he had just asked if she was still there when Thyone announced a visit from the grammateus Proclus.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • This word aroused the mirth of old Philippus, who praised all the good qualities of Macedonian wives except that of obedience, while Thyone protested that during her more than forty years of married life her husband had become so much accustomed to her complete submission than he no longer noticed it.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • This desire contained a summons to action, and to be able to bestir themselves in useful service appeared like a favour to Thyone and Daphne.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • The steward Gras had received orders to wake the Lady Thyone if anything unusual happened to the blind man, and when he heard the unfortunate artist groan so pitifully that it would have moved a stone, and saw him raise his hand despairingly to his head, he thought it was time to utter words of consolation, and a short time after the anxious matron followed him.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Thyone, it is true, thought that her husband's youthful vigour rendered this step premature, but the visit to Alexandria harmonized with her own wishes.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a few words with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor, over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

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