How To Use Bacchus In A Sentence
- The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
- These songs gradually developed a concomitant form of dialogue styled saturæ, a term denoting "miscellany", and derived perhaps from the _Satura lanx_, a charger filled with the first-fruits of the year's produce, which was offered to Bacchus and Ceres. [ English Satires
- The captain coming up to have a little conversation, and to introduce a friend, seated himself astride of one of these barrels, like a Bacchus of private life; and pulling a great clasp-knife out of his pocket, began to 'whittle' it as he talked, by paring thin slices off the edges. American Notes
- We have no example of this in Rome, but at Teos in Asia Minor there is one which is hexastyle, dedicated to Father Bacchus. The Ten Books on Architecture
- Phillis," said Bacchus, appealingly, "you aint much used to jokin, and I know you wouldn't tell an ontruth; what do you mean? Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is
- •Bacchus, I (hall not pretend to determine: but as the noble crop - ping, mentioned above, took. .place after dinner, there is fome reafqn to think Bacchus had his Sporting Magazine
- Apollo, ut Horatiu {m} a garrulo, sed Bacchus a uesani hominis disputatione, qua {m} diutius longe duraturam ueheme {n} ter timeba {m}. Early English Meals and Manners
- The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
- Gospel story of Bacchus, and to the statements that the Saviour was the son of a carpenter and was hung between two thieves, copied from the story of Christna, the Eighth, Avatar of the East Indian astrolatry. Astral Worship
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Nepture.
