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Βάκχευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βάκχευσις

Structure: Βακχευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Bacchic revelry

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

  • οὐ μὴ προσοίσεισ χεῖρα, βακχεύσεισ δ’ ἰών, μηδ’ ἐξομόρξῃ μωρίαν τὴν σὴν ἐμοί; (Euripides, episode 15:1)
  • κἄνπερ λάβητε, δέσμιον πορεύσατε δεῦρ’ αὐτόν, ὡσ ἂν λευσίμου δίκησ τυχὼν θάνῃ, πικρὰν βάκχευσιν ἐν Θήβαισ ἰδών. (Euripides, episode 16:2)
  • οὔποτ’ ἄκραντα δόμοισι Λύσσα βακχεύσει. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric3)
  • <ἢ> τάχα φόνον ἕτερον ἐπὶ φόνῳ βαλὼν ἀν’ αὖ βακχεύσει Καδμείων πόλιν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric3)
  • "δεινὴν γὰρ ἐμφαίνει καὶ θηριώδη περὶ τὰ γιγνόμενα καὶ προσδοκώμενα τῆσ ἡδονῆσ ἔργα ταραχὴν καὶ λύσσαν ἡ τοσαύτη πρὸσ ἀναμνήσεισ βάκχευσισ αὐτῆσ τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ πρόστηξισ. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 4 2:14)

Synonyms

  1. Bacchic revelry

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

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