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Βακχ-εύω ,
A.celebrate the mysteries of Bacchus, Hdt.4.79.
2. speak or act like one frenzy-stricken, S.Ant. 136 (lyr.), E.Ion1204, etc.: also of places, “β. στέγη” A.Fr.58, cf. E. IT1243(lyr.).
II. causal, inspire with frenzy, “αὗταί σε βακχεύουσι συγγενῆ φόνον;” E.Or.411, cf.HF966:—Pass., Id.Or.835; “φιλοσοφία εὖ μάλα βεβακχ.” full of mysticism, Plu.2.580c.
2. initiate in the Bacchic mysteries, in Pass., Schwyzer792 (Cyme, v B. C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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