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Sentence Examples
Because Orpheus and his followers were closely connected with mysteries of all sorts, Eumolpus was believed to be the son, father, or pupil of Musaeus, a mythical singer closely allied with Orpheus.
As Eumolpus, the work's singing narrator, the tenor must negotiate a series of treacherous arias that suggest Russian Orthodox chant, 18th-century Italian opera and, occasionally, Cole Porter.
Examples from Classical Literature
Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.
Loosely based on the dramatic fragment Eumolpus, by Euripides, the drama tells the tragic story of the ancient Athenian King, Erechtheus.
His comment attracts the attention of Eumolpus, who tells him the sordid joke about the Pergamene boy.
The subsequent appearance of Eumolpus in the picture gallery occasions a useful discussion of parallel scenes in the Aeneid and the Greek novel.
In the storm scene in Petronius's Satyricon, Encolpius, Ascylton, Giton and Eumolpus find themselves aboard a ship owned by Lichas of Tarentum and his wife, Tryphaena.
