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Definition of BacchosBac`chus, son of Zeus and Semele, the god of the vine, and promoter
of its culture as well as the civilisation which accompanied it;
represented as riding in a car drawn by tame tigers, and carrying a
Thyrsus (q. v.); he rendered signal service to Zeus in the war
of the gods with the Giants (q. v.). See Dionysus.
- Wikipedia
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse
for getting drunk. Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us? Jorace - 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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