The revellers may also improvise songs of realization ("caryagiti") to express their heightened clarity and blissful raptures in spontaneous verse.
Stock characters of all sorts also emerge: courtesans, parasites, revellers, philosophers, boastful soldiers, and especially the conceited cook with his parade of culinary science.
Authorities estimated that revellers numbered close to 2,000.
The alternative spelling is an old-fashioned affectation and is used in order to remind revellers and participants of medieval "fayres" and markets.
Maidens from "mandat" s with dozens of garden hoses exchange hundreds of gallons of water with throngs of revellers and one float after another.
Revellers can expect long lines at popular clubs.
As the band was performing a small hurricane hit the venue and artists and revellers alike were sent running for their lives.
Small groups of non-divine revellers in similar arcadian landscape settings are called bacchanals, and are even more common in art.
