A word formed from thriambos, the Dionysiac hymn.
“Some … have assigned the origin of … triumphal processions to the mythic pomps of Dionysus, after his conquests in the East, the very word triumph being … the Dionysiac hymn.”—Pater: Marius the Epiourean, chap. xii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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