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Meanings of bacchae in English

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Priest of Bacchus.

        bacantes

        1918 Polish translation by Jan Kasprowicz.

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              Examples for "bacchant"
              1
              The young bacchant had an immediate answer.
              The new yorker
              2
              Phrygians are seen reposing after a festival, bacchants rush in and the wild orgies begin afresh.
              The Standard Operaglass / Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fift...
              3
              But shall I be more like a Bacchant holding the thyrsus in my right hand, or in this?
              The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
              4
              The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.
              The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
              Usage of bacchae in English
              1
              But you will shed blood if you join battle with the Bacchæ.
              The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
              2
              Every thing is better than for the Bacchæ to mock me.
              The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
              3
              It was reprinted, without alteration, prefixed to Dr. Tyrrell's edition of the Bacchae.
              Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
              4
              The Bacchae was composed in Macedonia; it contains all the mystery of the supernatural.
              Authors of Greece
              5
              Hence the glorious inspiration of the Bacchae and the Atys.
              Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
              6
              Hence the very Bacchae use measure, and the inspired give their oracles in measure.
              Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
              7
              The Chorus of Bacchae are alarmed on hearing a tumult.
              Authors of Greece
              8
              Reprinted in Tyrrell's edition of the Bacchae in 1892.
              Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
              9
              On The Town: The Bacchae says everything about life.
              The Irish Times
              10
              Perhaps he had his moods: he was religious when he wrote "The Bacchae."
              Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles
              11
              Ay, when you call him, standing among the Bacchæ.
              The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
              12
              They are very cold and fragrant, and their scent seems to belong to Greece, to the Bacchae.
              Twilight in Italy
              13
              You compare your Bacchae with Metellus's Muses.
              Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
              14
              Tellest thou any news from the Bacchæ?
              The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
              15
              Already like fire does this insolence of the Bacchæ extend thus near, a great reproach to the Greeks.
              The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
              16
              The Medea, the Alcestis, the Troades, the Bacchae, are alone sufficient to place him in the very first rank.
              Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
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