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Βάκχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βάκχος Βάκχη Βάκχον

Structure: Βακχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: The Root seems to be VAX, so that Ba/kxos represents va/kxos; and I)/akxos is for vi/vakxos; prob. from i)a/xw, viva/xw, to shout

Sense

  1. Bacchus
  2. wine
  3. a Bacchanal, any one inspired, frantic

Examples

  • Ἀτθὶσ δ’ οἱᾶ μέλισσα πολυπρήωνα Κολώνην λείπουσ1’ ἐν τραγικαῖσ ᾖδε χοροστασίαισ Βάκχον καὶ τὸν Ἔρωτα Θεωρίδοσ Ἠριγόνησ τε ἅσ ποτε γηραιῷ Ζεὺσ ἔπορεν Σοφοκλεῖ . (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 7:3)
  • καλεῖσθαι γὰρ καὶ βάκχον καὶ ὀνίσκον καὶ χελλαρίην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 87 2:2)
  • "οἱ μὲν βάκχον, φησί, καλοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ γελαρίην, οἱ δὲ ὀνίσκον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 99 1:6)
  • τὸν χρυσομίτραν τε κικλήσκω, τᾶσδ’ ἐπώνυμον γᾶσ, οἰνῶπα Βάκχον εὐιόν, Μαινάδων ὁμόστολον, πελασθῆναι φλέγοντ’ ἀγλαῶπι πεύκᾳ ’πὶ τὸν ἀπότιμον ἐν θεοῖσ θεόν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 32)
  • 22 Βάκχον δὲ οὐ τὸν Διόνυσον ἐκάλουν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ τελοῦντασ τὰ ὄργια Βάκχουσ ἐκάλουν, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ κλάδουσ οὓσ οἱ μύσται φέρουσι. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 37)

Synonyms

  1. Bacchus

  2. wine

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

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