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Βακχεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: Bakcheus

Principal Part: Βακχεύς

Structure: Βακχευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = Ba/kxos, Soph., Eur.

Sense

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

  • Συρίας δ ὡς λιβάνου κα- πνὸν ὁ Βακχεὺς ἀνέχων πυρσώδη φλόγα πεύκας ἐκ νάρθηκος ἀίσσει δρόμῳ καὶ χοροῖσιν πλανάτας ἐρεθίζων ἰαχαῖς τ ἀναπάλλων, τρυφερόν <τε> πλόκαμον εἰς αἰθέρα ῥίπτων. (Euripides, choral, epode3)
  • - καὶ Βρόμιος ἄλλον ἀπολέμοι- σι κισσίνοισι βάκτροις ἐναίρει Γᾶς τέκνων ὁ Βακχεύς. (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 29)
  • ἦ γὰρ συνήραξ οἶκον ἢ βάκχευς ἐμόν· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:18)

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

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