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Bacchic

Bacchic meaning

Of or relating to Bacchus. | By extension, drunken. | Relating to a bacchius.

Example sentences (3)

According to Nonnus of Panopolis, the Indian army was annihilated by Bacchic forces, and Dionysus took pity on his enemies.

Roman etymologists thought that the soldiers' chant of triumpe was a borrowing via Etruscan of the Greek thriambus (θρίαμβος), cried out by satyrs and other attendants in Dionysian and Bacchic processions.

The reformed, officially approved Bacchic cults would have borne little resemblance to the earlier crowded, ecstatic and uninhibited Bacchanalia.