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Βακχεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

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)
  • διὸ καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ θεοῦ παρὰ τοῖσ Ναξίοισ τὸ μὲν τοῦ Βακχέωσ Διονύσου καλουμένου εἶναι ἀμπέλινον, τὸ δὲ τοῦ Μειλιχίου σύκινον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 14 2:4)
  • 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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