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Βάκχευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βάκχευμα

Structure: Βακχευματ (Stem)

Etym.: Bakxeu/w

Sense

  1. Bacchic revelries

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πόλιν δὲ δείξω τήνδε μακαριωτέραν ἢ τοὺσ Ἀχαιούσ, ἔνθεοσ μέν, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ τοσόνδε γ’ ἔξω στήσομαι βακχευμάτων· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:16)
  • δεῖ γὰρ πόλιν τήνδ’ ἐκμαθεῖν, κεἰ μὴ θέλει, ἀτέλεστον οὖσαν τῶν ἐμῶν βακχευμάτων, Σεμέλησ τε μητρὸσ ἀπολογήσασθαί μ’ ὕπερ φανέντα θνητοῖσ δαίμον’ ὃν τίκτει Διί. (Euripides, episode 3:6)
  • Ὦ σεμνὰσ πλάκασ ναίοντεσ ὀρέων, θέλετε θηρασώμεθα Πενθέωσ Ἀγαύην μητέρ’ ἐκ βακχευμάτων χάριν τ’ ἄνακτι θώμεθα; (Euripides, episode, trochees 5:3)
  • ἢ καὶ τοῦτο συμβολικὴ θιάσων καὶ βακχευμάτων ἀπαγόρευσισ ἦν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 112 3:4)
  • ἢ καὶ τοῦτο συμβολικὴ θιάσων καὶ βακχευμάτων ἀπαγόρευσισ ἦν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 112 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. Bacchic revelries

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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