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bacchus
/ˈbækɪs/
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What does bacchus mean?
proper noun
- The Greco-Roman god of wine and vivid social gatherings.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbækɪs/
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“A Bacchus, realistically treated! My dear young friend, never trifle with your lofty mission. Spotless marble should represent virtue, not vice!”
This quality was their Bacchus, Dionysos, or god-idea--the creator not alone of physical existence, but of good and evil as well.
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All places resounded with music of pipes and flutes, with harping and singing, and women dancing as in the rites of Bacchus.
In consequence of the connection of this king with the vine, he was converted in later times into the dissolute god Bacchus.
Although the Bacchus is distinctively a wine grape, I have already said that its flavor, when fully ripe, was agreeable to me.