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Βάκχος , ὁ,
A.Bacchus, name of Dionysus, first in S.OT211 (lyr.), cf. E.Hipp.560 (lyr.), al., Limen.19, Theoc.Ep.18.3, etc.
2. “Ζεὺς Β.” Epigr.Gr.1035.22.
II. wine, E.IA1061 (lyr.), etc.
III. Bacchanal, Heraclit.14, E.Ba.491: generally, any one inspired, frantic, “Ἅιδου Βάκχος” Id.HF1119; πολλοὶ μὲν ναρθηκοφόροι, “Β. δέ τε παῦροι” Orph.Fr.5.
2. branch carried by initiates, Xenoph.17.
IV. a kind of grey mullet, Hices. ap. Ath.7.306e; = ὀνίσκος II, Dorio ap. Ath.3.118c, cf. Xenocr.I.
V. garland, “βάκχοισιν κεφαλὰς περιάνθεσιν ἐστέ ψαντο” Nic.Fr.130.
VI. = κλαυθμός (Phoenician), Hsch.
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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    • Euripides, Bacchae, 491
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