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Βάκχ-ειος or Βακχεῖος , α, ον, also Βάκχιος , α, ον (to suit the metre), fem. ος Luc.Ocyp.171:—
A.of or belonging to Bacchus and his rites, “βότρυς” S.Fr.255.2; “νόμος” E.Hec.686 (lyr.); “ῥυθμός” X.Smp.9.3, etc.: hence, frenzied, rapt, “Β. Διόνυσος” h.Hom.19.46, cf. Hdt.4.79; ὁ “Β. θεός” S.OT1105 (lyr.); “Βάκχειε δεσπότ᾽” Ar.Th.988 (lyr.), cf. IG4.558.20 (Argos), etc.; τὸν Β. ἄνακτα, of Aeschylus, Ar.Ra.1259.
II. as Subst., Βάκχιος, ὁ, = Βάκχος, S.Ant.154 (lyr.), E.Cyc.9:—also, = οἶνος, Id.IT953, Cyc.519, Antiph. 237.
2. Βάκχια or Βακχ-εῖα , τά, v. Βακχεῖον.
3. Βακχεῖος (sc. πούς), ὁ, the bacchius, a metrical foot of three syllables, _ _ ^, D.H.Comp.17 (opp. ὑποβ. ^ _ _); but later ^ _ _, Heph.3 (opp. παλιμβ. _ _ ^), etc.; also β. ἀπὸ τροχαίου (_ ^ ^ _), ἀπ᾽ ἰάμβου (^ _ _ ^), Aristid.Quint. 1.17, cf. Anon.Rhythm.Oxy.9 iii 12; = ^ ^ _ _, Bacch.Harm. 101.
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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