Bacchēus

Bacchēus, a, um.

Of Bacchus, Bacchic; v.1. Bacchus, II. C.—

Bacchantian; v.1. Baccha fin.

Baccha (old orthog. Baca; v. S. C. Bacch.; Bacca, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 4 Wagn.; Bacche, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 41), ae, f., = Bakchê; cf. also Mainas or Thuïas, a Bacchanet, a female attendant of Bacchus, who, in company with Silenus and the Satyrs, celebrated the festival of that deity with a raving madness carried even to insensibility, with an ivy crown upon her head, a fawn-skin upon her left shoulder, a staff wound with ivy in her hand, and with hair loose and flying wildly about, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71; id. Aul. 3, 1, 3; id. Cas. 5, 4, 9; id. Bacch. 3, 1, 4; 1, 1, 19; Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.; Ov. M. 4, 25; 6, 587 sq.; 9, 642; 11, 89; id. Tr. l. l.; id. H. 10, 48; id. F. 6, 507; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 33; Luc. 5, 74 (Matres Edonides, Ov. M. 11, 69;

v. Bacchus).—Represented in paintings: Bacchas istas cum Musis Metelli comparas,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2:

Bacchis initiare aliquem,

to initiate into the festivals of Bacchus, Liv. 39, 9, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 39, 10, 2;

39, 14, 8.—In a pun with Bacchis (q. v. II.): quia Bacchis, Bacchas metuo et Bacchanal tuom,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 19; cf. id. ib. 3, 1, 4; v. Bacchis. —Hence,

Deriv.: Bacchēus, a, um, adj., = Bakcheios, relating to the Bacchœ or Bacchantes, Bacchantian:

vox,

Col. 10, 223:

sanguis,

spilt by them, Stat. Th. 1, 328:

bella,

id. ib. 12, 791.

Baccha, ae, f., a kind of Spanish wine, Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.

Baccha (old orthog. Baca; v. S. C. Bacch.; Bacca, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 4 Wagn.; Bacche, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 41), ae, f., = Bakchê; cf. also Mainas or Thuïas, a Bacchanet, a female attendant of Bacchus, who, in company with Silenus and the Satyrs, celebrated the festival of that deity with a raving madness carried even to insensibility, with an ivy crown upon her head, a fawn-skin upon her left shoulder, a staff wound with ivy in her hand, and with hair loose and flying wildly about, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71; id. Aul. 3, 1, 3; id. Cas. 5, 4, 9; id. Bacch. 3, 1, 4; 1, 1, 19; Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.; Ov. M. 4, 25; 6, 587 sq.; 9, 642; 11, 89; id. Tr. l. l.; id. H. 10, 48; id. F. 6, 507; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 33; Luc. 5, 74 (Matres Edonides, Ov. M. 11, 69;

v. Bacchus).—Represented in paintings: Bacchas istas cum Musis Metelli comparas,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2:

Bacchis initiare aliquem,

to initiate into the festivals of Bacchus, Liv. 39, 9, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 39, 10, 2;

39, 14, 8.—In a pun with Bacchis (q. v. II.): quia Bacchis, Bacchas metuo et Bacchanal tuom,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 19; cf. id. ib. 3, 1, 4; v. Bacchis. —Hence,

Deriv.: Bacchēus, a, um, adj., = Bakcheios, relating to the Bacchœ or Bacchantes, Bacchantian:

vox,

Col. 10, 223:

sanguis,

spilt by them, Stat. Th. 1, 328:

bella,

id. ib. 12, 791.

Baccha, ae, f., a kind of Spanish wine, Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.

Baccha (old orthog. Baca; v. S. C. Bacch.; Bacca, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 4 Wagn.; Bacche, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 41), ae, f., = Bakchê; cf. also Mainas or Thuïas, a Bacchanet, a female attendant of Bacchus, who, in company with Silenus and the Satyrs, celebrated the festival of that deity with a raving madness carried even to insensibility, with an ivy crown upon her head, a fawn-skin upon her left shoulder, a staff wound with ivy in her hand, and with hair loose and flying wildly about, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71; id. Aul. 3, 1, 3; id. Cas. 5, 4, 9; id. Bacch. 3, 1, 4; 1, 1, 19; Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.; Ov. M. 4, 25; 6, 587 sq.; 9, 642; 11, 89; id. Tr. l. l.; id. H. 10, 48; id. F. 6, 507; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 33; Luc. 5, 74 (Matres Edonides, Ov. M. 11, 69;

v. Bacchus).—Represented in paintings: Bacchas istas cum Musis Metelli comparas,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2:

Bacchis initiare aliquem,

to initiate into the festivals of Bacchus, Liv. 39, 9, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 39, 10, 2;

39, 14, 8.—In a pun with Bacchis (q. v. II.): quia Bacchis, Bacchas metuo et Bacchanal tuom,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 19; cf. id. ib. 3, 1, 4; v. Bacchis. —Hence,

Deriv.: Bacchēus, a, um, adj., = Bakcheios, relating to the Bacchœ or Bacchantes, Bacchantian:

vox,

Col. 10, 223:

sanguis,

spilt by them, Stat. Th. 1, 328:

bella,

id. ib. 12, 791.

Baccha, ae, f., a kind of Spanish wine, Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.

Baccha (old orthog. Baca; v. S. C. Bacch.; Bacca, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 4 Wagn.; Bacche, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 41), ae, f., = Bakchê; cf. also Mainas or Thuïas, a Bacchanet, a female attendant of Bacchus, who, in company with Silenus and the Satyrs, celebrated the festival of that deity with a raving madness carried even to insensibility, with an ivy crown upon her head, a fawn-skin upon her left shoulder, a staff wound with ivy in her hand, and with hair loose and flying wildly about, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71; id. Aul. 3, 1, 3; id. Cas. 5, 4, 9; id. Bacch. 3, 1, 4; 1, 1, 19; Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.; Ov. M. 4, 25; 6, 587 sq.; 9, 642; 11, 89; id. Tr. l. l.; id. H. 10, 48; id. F. 6, 507; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 33; Luc. 5, 74 (Matres Edonides, Ov. M. 11, 69;

v. Bacchus).—Represented in paintings: Bacchas istas cum Musis Metelli comparas,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2:

Bacchis initiare aliquem,

to initiate into the festivals of Bacchus, Liv. 39, 9, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 39, 10, 2;

39, 14, 8.—In a pun with Bacchis (q. v. II.): quia Bacchis, Bacchas metuo et Bacchanal tuom,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 19; cf. id. ib. 3, 1, 4; v. Bacchis. —Hence,

Deriv.: Bacchēus, a, um, adj., = Bakcheios, relating to the Bacchœ or Bacchantes, Bacchantian:

vox,

Col. 10, 223:

sanguis,

spilt by them, Stat. Th. 1, 328:

bella,

id. ib. 12, 791.

Baccha, ae, f., a kind of Spanish wine, Varr. L. L. 7, § 87 Müll.

Bacchus, i, m., = Bakchos, son of Jupiter and a Theban woman, Semele, Tib. 3, 4, 45; Ov. F. 6, 485:

bis genitus (since, as Semele died before his birth, he was carried about by Jupiter in his hip until the time of his maturity),

Curt. 8, 10, 12, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 26; cf. id. M. 3, 310, and bimatris, id. ib. 4, 12; v. also Cic. Fl. 26, 60; Verg. G. 4, 521; the god of wine (as such also called Liber, the deliverer, Lyæus (luein), the care-dispeller; cf. Enn. ap. Charis. p. 214 P., or Trag. Rel. v. 149 Vahl.; cf Hor. Epod. 9, 38; as intoxicating and inspiring, he is god of poets, esp. of the highly inspired, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 23; 3, 15, 17; id. Tr. 5, 3, 33 sq.; Hor. C. 2, 19, 1; Juv. 7, 64;

who wore crowns of ivy, which was consecrated to him,

Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 15: Bacchica verba (poëtae), id ib. 1, 7, 2.—He was worshipped esp. in Thrace and Macedonia, and particularly upon Mount Edon, Hor. C. 2, 7, 27;

hence, the Bacchæ are called matres Edonides,

Ov. M. 11, 69; id. Tr. 4, 1, 42; v. also Liber.—Bacchus, in the most ancient times, is represented as a god of nature by a Phallic Herma (v. such a statue in O. Müll. Denkm. 4); in the class. per. in the form of a beautiful youth (Tib. 1, 4, 37; Ov. F. 3, 773), with a crown of vine leaves or ivy upon his head, and sometimes with small horns upon his forehead (id. ib. 3, 481; 3, 767; 6, 483);

hence, corymbifer,

Ov. F. 1, 393; Tib. 2, 1, 3; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. cornua, p. 37 Müll.;

his soft hair fell in long ringlets upon his shoulders (depexus crinibus,

Ov. F. 3, 465; cf. id. M. 3, 421); with the exception of a fawn's skin (nebris) thrown around him, he was usually represented naked, but with high and beautiful buskins, the Dionysian cothurni, upon his feet; in his hand he, as well as his attendants (a satyr, Silenus, and the Bacchæ), carried the thyrsus (id. F. 3, 764; cf. id. M. 4, 7 sq.); cf. O. Müll. Arch. § 383.—

Meton.

The cry or invocation to Bacchus, lo Bacche! audito Baccho, Verg. A. 4, 302.—

The vine:

apertos Bacchus amat colles,

Verg. G. 2, 113; Manil. 5, 238; Luc. 9, 433; Col. 10, 38; cf.

fertilis,

Hor. C. 2, 6, 19.—

Wine:

Bacchi quom flos evanuit,

Lucr. 3, 222:

madeant generoso pocula Baccho,

Tib. 3, 6, 5:

et multo in primis hilarans convivia Baccho,

Verg. E. 5, 69; so id. G. 1, 344; 4, 279; id. A. 5, 77; Hor. C. 3, 16, 34; Ov. M. 4, 765; 6, 488; 7, 246; 7, 450; 13, 639; cf.: Bacchi Massicus umor. Verg. G. 2, 143.—

Hence, derivv.

Bac-chĭcus, a, um, adj., = Bakchikos, of Bacchus, Bacchic:

serta,

Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 2; Mart. 7, 62:

buxus,

Stat. Th. 9, 479:

Naxos,

id. Achill. 2, 4:

ritus,

Macr. S. 1, 18:

metrum,

Diom. p. 513 P.—

Bacchĭus, a, um, adj., = Bakchios, of Bacchus:

sacra,

Ov. M. 3, 518.—

Bacchēus, a, um, adj., = Bakcheios, Bacchic:

ululatus,

Ov. M. 11, 17:

sacra,

the feast of Bacchus, id. ib. 3, 691:

cornua,

Stat. Th. 9, 435.—

Bacchēĭ-us, a, um, the same:

dona,

i. e. wine, Verg. G. 2, 454 (prob. a spurious verse; v. Forbig. ad loc.).—

Bacchīus, a, um, adj., Bacchic: pes, a metrical foot, a Bacchius, ¯¯˘

(e. g. Rōmānŭs),

Ter. Maur. p. 2414 P., although others reverse this order; v. Quint. 9, 4, 82; Ascon. Div. in Caecil. 7; Don. p. 1739 P.

Bacchus, i, m., a sea-fish, also called myxon, Plin. 9, 17, 28, § 61; 32, 7, 25, § 77; 32, 11, 53, § 145.

sanguis, ĭnis (acc. SANGVEM, Inscr. Fratr. Arval. tab. 41, 22; Inscr. Orell. 2270 and 5054; cf. ex-sanguis, acc. -em.— Neutr. collat. form sanguen, ante-class., Enn. ap. Non. 224; id.ap.Cic.Rep. 1, 41, 64; id.ap.Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31; Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218; id. ap. Prisc. p. 708 P.; Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19; Att. and Varr. ap. Non. l. l.; Lucr. 1, 837; 1, 860; Petr. 59, 1; Arn. 1, 36), m. [etym. dub.; prob. root sak-, sag-, to drop, flow; cf. Angl.-Sax. sūc-an; Germ. saugen], blood (class. only in the sing.; cf. cruor).

Lit.:

guttam haut habeo sanguinis,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 76: quod sanguen defluxerat, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19:

sine sanguine hoc fieri non posse,

bloodshed, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 9:

sanguen creari,

Lucr. 1, 837:

nobis venas et sanguen...esse,

id. 1, 860:

in quem (ventriculum cordis) sanguis a jecore per venam illam cavam influit: eoque modo ex his partibus sanguis per venas in omne corpus diffunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138:

fluvius Atratus sanguine,

id. Div. 1, 43, 98:

flumine sanguinis meum reditum interclu, dendum putaverunt,

id. Red. ad Quir. 5, 14; id. Red. in Sen. 3, 6:

nuntiatum est, in foro Subertano sanguinis rivos per totum diem fluxisse,

Liv. 26, 23, 5:

cum rivi sanguis flammam orientem restinguere,

id. 28, 23, 2: pugnatum ingenti caede utrimque, [p. 1627] plurimo sanguine, Liv. 2, 64: haurire sanguinem, to shed (another's) blood:

ad meum sanguinem hauriendum advolaverunt,

Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

tanti sanguinis nostri hauriendi est sitis,

Liv. 26, 13, 14:

nisi hauriendum sanguinem laniendaque viscera nostra praebuerimus,

id. 9, 1, 9:

relicum sanguinem jubentes haurire,

id. 22, 51, 7:

multum sanguinem invicem hausimus,

Curt. 4, 14, 17:

multorum sanguinem hauserunt,

Sen. Ben. 6, 30, 5; Lact. 5, 1, 8: sanguinem dare, to shed (one's own) blood, give (one's) life:

in beluas strinximus ferrum, hauriendus aut dandus est sanguis,

Liv. 7, 24, 4:

dandus invidiae est sanguis,

id. 3, 54, 4:

quid super sanguinis, qui dari pro re publicā posset, rogitantes,

id. 4, 58, 13; Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 2; 3, 18, 2:

sanguinem mittere,

to bleed, let blood, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2; so Cels. 2, 10; 4, 13;

for which: emittere sanguinem de aure,

Col. 6, 14, 3:

sub caudā,

id. 7, 5, 19; 6, 6, 4; 6, 9, 1:

demere (e capite),

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 23:

detrahere (ex auriculā),

Col. 6, 14, 3; Cels. 2, 10, 4; 6, 6, 26:

ex adversā parte de auriculā sanguinem mittere,

Col. 7, 10, 2:

supprimere sanguinem,

to stanch, stop, Cels. 2, 10;

for which: cohibere,

id. 8, 4; Plin. 22, 25, 71, § 147:

sistere,

id. 20, 7, 25, § 59; 28, 18, 73, § 239.—

Plur. (late Lat.):

vir sanguinum,

i. e. bloody, violent, cruel, Vulg. 2 Reg. 16, 7, 8; id. Psa. 5, 6; 25, 9; 54, 23; cf.:

libera me de sanguinibus,

i. e. the guilt of shedding blood, id. ib. 50, 15:

vae civitati sanguinum,

id. Ezech. 24, 9.—

Transf. (class.; esp. freq. in the poets).

Blood, i. e. consanguinity, descent, race, stock, family.

Abstr.:

sanguine conjuncti,

blood-relations, relatives by blood, Cic. Inv. 2, 53, 161; Sall. J. 10, 3:

alicui materno a sanguine jungi,

Ov. M. 2, 368:

alicui sanguine cohaerere,

Quint. 8, 3, 75:

progeniem Trojano a sanguine duci,

Verg. A. 1, 19; cf.:

genus alto a sanguine Teucri,

id. ib. 4, 230:

Semiramio Polydaemona sanguine cretum,

Ov. M. 5, 85:

sanguine cretus Sisyphio,

id. ib. 13, 31:

nostri quoque sanguinis auctor Juppiter est,

id. ib. 13, 142:

nec iis tantum quos sanguine attingit amandus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 2:

sanguinem sociare,

Liv. 4, 4, 6:

Tiridates sanguinis ejusdem,

Tac. A. 6, 32.—

Concr., a descendant, offspring: o pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64; and id. ap. Prisc. p. 708 P. (Ann. v. 117 Vahl.); cf.:

non magis in alienis, quam in proximis ac sanguine ipso suo exerceret,

Liv. 7, 4, 3:

in suum sanguinem saevire,

id. 40, 5, 1:

Alexandri sanguis et stirps,

Curt. 10, 6, 10:

suum sanguinem perditum ire,

Tac. A. 4, 66; 3, 4:

ne secus quam suum sanguinem (eum) foveret ac tolleret,

id. ib. 4, 8; Vell. 1, 10, 5; Val. Max. 5, 9, 4:

seu deos regesve canit, deorum Sanguinem, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 14: clarus Anchisae Venerisque sanguis (i. e. Æneas), id. C. S. 50: regius sanguis (i. e. Europa), id. C. 3, 27, 65: vos, o Pompilius sanguis (i. e. the Pisos), id. A. P. 292:

non ego, pauperum Sanguis parentum,

id. C. 2, 20, 6:

pro sanguine tuo,

Ov. M. 5, 515:

sanguis meus,

Verg. A. 6, 836:

tuus,

Tib. 1, 6, 66; Stat. Th. 3, 559.—

Of other fluids (rare):

et viridis nemori sanguis decedit et herbis,

Manil. 5, 212:

Baccheus,

i. e. wine, Stat. Th. 1, 329; cf. Plin. 14, 5, 7, § 58:

Pallas amat turgentes sanguine baccas,

Nemes. Ecl. 2, 50.—

Trop., vigor, strength, force, spirit, life (class.), Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 45:

amisimus, mi Pomponi, omnem non modo sucum ac sanguinem, sed etiam colorem et speciem pristinam civitatis,

Cic. Att. 4, 18, 2 (4, 16, 10); cf.

Sall. Fragm. Or. Lepidi, § 25: vos o, quibus integer aevi Sanguis, ait, solidaeque suo stant robore vires,

Verg. A. 2, 639: quae cum de sanguine detraxisset aerarii, had bled the treasury (the figure taken from blood-letting), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 36, § 83; cf.: cum ex aphaireseôs provinciam curarit, sanguinem miserit, etc., id. Att. 6, 1, 2:

missus est sanguis invidiae sine dolore,

id. ib. 1, 16, 11:

qui ab illo pestifero ac perdito civi jam pridem rei publicae sanguine saginantur,

id. Sest. 36, 78; cf.:

illa in agendis causis jam detrita: Jugulum petere et Sanguinem mittere...nec offendunt tamen,

Quint. 8, 6, 51.—Of vigor, force of style:

sucus ille et sanguis incorruptus usque ad hanc aetatem oratorum fuit, in quā naturalis inesset, non fucatus nitor,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36: orationis subtilitas etsi non plurimi sanguinis est, etc., id. Or. 23, 76:

sanguine et viribus niteat,

Quint. 8, 3, 6; so (with vires) id. 10, 2, 12:

Calvus metuens, ne vitiosum colligeret, etiam verum sanguinem deperdebat,

Cic. Brut. 82, 283:

dicta plena sanguinis,

Quint. 11, 1, 34:

sanguinem ipsum ac medullam verborum ejus eruere atque introspicere penitus,

Gell. 18, 4, 2.