Bacchus

The liquor's proper designation, him

The name of Bacchus rather than pronounce

Young Bacchus suck";

By Bacchus, I will obey you.

Spectators, I will freely declare to you the truth, by Bacchus, who nurtured me!

I would not, by Bacchus, even if you were to give me the pheasants which Leogoras rears!

He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad.

there was Semele, and Alkmene in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Herakles, while Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of humankind.

"Then I saw Phaedra, and Procris, and fair Ariadne daughter of the magician Minos, whom Theseus was carrying off from Crete to Athens, but he did not enjoy her, for before he could do so Artemis killed her in the island of Dia on account of what Bacchus had said against her.

Your mother brought us a golden vase to hold them - gift of Bacchus, and work of Hephaistos himself;

while in that of Bacchus some were walled up and perished.

That they shall be renewed every year, by the Lacedaemonians going to Athens at the Dionysian festival, and by the Athenians going to

This treaty was concluded at the end of the winter, when the spring was commencing, immediately after the city festival of Bacchus, when just ten years had elapsed with the variation of a few days, since the invasion of Attica was first made, and this war commenced.

By Bacchus!

to Bacchus, the finch and Cybele, the ostrich and mother of the gods and mankind.

yet he goes beyond the ocean and the sun, he is indignant to turn his victory aside from the footsteps of Hercules and Bacchus, he prepares force against nature herself.

"Make me the conqueror of all the nations, let that luxurious car of Bacchus bear me in triumph from the sun's rising even to Thebes, let the kings of the nations seek their laws from me;

And may Bacchus, who shakes the earth of Thebes, rule our dancing!

Father Liber with his mysteries the consuls, by the senate's authority, drove out not only from the city but from all Italy.

The very thing which you seem most faithfully to maintain as handed down from your fathers — the thing in which you have chiefly marked out Christians as transgressors, I mean the zeal for worshipping the gods, wherein antiquity most of all went astray — even though you have now rebuilt altars to a Serapis become Roman, even though you now offer your frenzies to a Bacchus become Italian, I will sh …

That laurel is sacred to Apollo or to Bacchus—to the one as god of weapons, to the other as god of triumphs.

Bacchus, the same who among the Egyptians is Osiris, Harpocration argues by industry to be ivy-crowned, because it is the nature of ivy to defend the brain from heaviness.

If you name some one of the gods of the world as the author of each piece of furniture and of the several vessels, I must needs acknowledge Christ both reclining on a couch, and when He offers a basin to the feet of His disciples, and when He pours water from a pitcher, and when He is girt about with a linen cloth—the proper garment of Osiris.