people
Bistonians
Bistonid women
also: Bistonidum
A Thracian people; the 'Bistonid women' are Bacchantes whose hair Bacchus binds with snakes.
Reading notes
- The Odes §2.19 Bistonid women
Thracian Bacchantes, whose hair Bacchus binds 'with a snake-knot, doing no harm.'