How To Use Bacchus In A Sentence
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Pierre le grand: Or, "The poker chip" and "The buskin," Bacchus, and Aphrodite (not Venus), Comus, and Momus: exalting natural virtues and rebuking hypocracy both in church and state by J. W Rogers
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The consulting detective was also pleased with the discussion; his eyes glinted like the sparks of attritive flint; and though his sips were dainty, as befitted a gentleman savoring the fruit of Bacchus, the sips were frequent and exuberant.
An East Wind Coming
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Plunging from his cheetah-drawn chariot, Bacchus looses arrows of longing from his eyes at Ariadne, and transfixes her in mid-flight.
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Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold.
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The Bacchanalia and the Liberalia were related religious festivals in ancient Rome, in honor of Bacchus.
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Bacchus in early likenesses was a bearded man, but later he was pictured as a youth.
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_Evoe, evoe, _ and you will neither worship Comus nor Bacchus!
Waverley Novels — Volume 12
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Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Madame could not have chosen better foils for her own voluptuous style than the three women, all angles -- looking as she always did, as though she had been visiting Vulcan, and feeding on the red-hot coals beneath his hammer, while quenching her thirst from a cantharus given her by the hand of Bacchus himself.
A Heart-Song of To-day
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Nay, even the tipsy crew at Bacchus's affected to treat her name with scorn: -- "The girl had made much noise about being called a trull, as if many a better than she wasn't one; and, after all, what was the prudish wench?
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Moreover, in the church at the top of the painting of the Bacchus.
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He has also recognized that, in England, grape varieties such as Bacchus and Sylvaner might grow, but on the High Street, they don't sell.
England's Sparkling Dream
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Pharmacomechanical thrombectomy, such as those offered by EKOS and Covidien (which purchased the technology in its acquisition of Bacchus Vascular in 2009), is an emerging market in Europe.
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With them was Bacchus, a mongrel dog who won the hearts of the crew and was rewarded in 1943 with a National Canine Defence League valiant dog medal.
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Others think that this proverb admonisheth the guests to forget everything that is spoken or done in company; and agreeably to this, the ancients used to consecrate forgetfulness with a ferula to Bacchus, thereby intimating that we should either not remember any irregularity committed in mirth and company, or apply a gentle and childish correction to the faults.
Symposiacs
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After this, Bacchus was seen marching in battalia, riding in a stately chariot drawn by six young leopards.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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We have sung to you the jovial chorus of Evoe, evoe, and you will neither worship Comus nor Bacchus!
Count Robert of Paris
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Greek Mythology Roman Mythology A priest or votary of Bacchus.
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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
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Midas repented his wish, and Bacchus took away the gold touch, but later Midas found himself in trouble again.
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But the ancients indeed call Bacchus the good counsellor, as if he had no need of Mercury; and for his sake they named the night [Greek omitted] as it were, GOOD ADVISER.
Symposiacs
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Many of his works feature astonishingly mimetic renditions of fruits, flora, and vessels, as in the Bacchus.
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The musculature and tonality of the men in the lower right-hand corner are reminiscent of the bearded figure in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne.
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Bacchus of the divertisement is not kept entirely in the background.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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He was referring to the Bacchanalia, Roman religious festivals honoring the wine god, Bacchus.
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To have an enviable handicap in golf and to be a connoisseur of Bacchus is not unknown among members of the medical profession.
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Before becoming a literary sensation in 2007, Barbery had published Une gourmandise (to be published in 2009 by Europa Editions), a novel that was awarded the Bacchus-Bsn Prize.
An Interview with Muriel Barbery by Viviana Musumeci, April 15 2008
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Dins Bacchus, 'tis tropo Caro -- tropo Caro_, Mr. _Galliard_.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II
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Willful eccentricity is the name of the game as, for instance, George Cruikshank's 19th-century satirical painting The Worship of Bacchus is restaged in a Victorian toy theatre featuring modern-day heroic over-imbibers such as George Best, Courtney Love, Oliver Reed and Hunter S Thompson.
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Aliyah Bacchus is a Muslim who left an arranged marriage in Queens, N.Y., before coming to understand her sexuality as a lesbian
A gay Muslim, tested by faith and family
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Macrobius also wrote that in the rites of Liber, Roman god of fertility and wine who was also called Bacchus and identified with Dionysius, eggs were honored, worshipped, and called the symbol of the universe, the beginning of all things.
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TBRE has returned from her transection of Darkest New Hampshire* with heroic quantities of booze, such that I have been forced to clear out a cabinet in the kitchen (formerly devoted to clutter and extra dog food) in order to construct a Shrine To Bacchus.
Panama freighter wearing rusty brown
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If it's the wine god Bacchus, or the sex god Eros you've taken in, you become controlled by that god, indwelt by that god for a period of time.
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Other big draws include the House of Dionysus (a 2nd century B.C. private home) and the Platform of the Stoibadeion (dedicated to the Greek god of wine and pleasure Dionysus, also known as Bacchus).
Bob Schulman: A Tale of Two Islands
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But as soon as their mean little faces looked out, Bacchus gave a great cry of Euan, euoi-oi-oi-of and the boys all began howling with fright and trampling one another down to get out of the door and jumping out of the windows.
Prince Caspian
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He looked under the consecrated Laune sleeves as big as Bul-beefe -- just like Bacchus upon
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Nepture.
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The most ordinary, perhaps, is the cantharus, or two-handled cup, which was particularly sacred to Bacchus.
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Also, the Romans who previously occupied the site held the "triennia," a festival every three years in honor of Bacchus.
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For the fables that are storied and related about the discerption of Bacchus, and the attempts of the Titans upon him, and of their tasting of his slain body, and of their several punishments and fulminations afterwards, are but a representation of the regeneration.
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But I tell you this, when she recovers her senses, all Bacchus will give her is bitter tears for her reward.
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We find that they were also used in the ceremonies of the Mysteries, for we see their forms represented on the vases themselves: Bacchus frequently holds a cantharus, Satyrs carry a diota.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Maybe it's an ode to l' grand Bacchus… Maybe if we eat them we'll morph into a barrel of wine… Are we on a date?
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I hav a once-a-month market stall here in Oz in a town called Bacchus Marsh.
Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
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Catullus brings forth the frenzied, almost feral, aspects of Bacchus's followers driven mad with drunkenness and hedonism, whereas Ovid concentrates on the romantic or emotional experience of Bacchus and Ariadne's encounter.
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The exhibition's first gallery, with russet and black walls, is lined with customary atrium furnishings: marble statues of men and women, gracefully draped in togas, who might represent the family's ancestors; a marble table supported by four carved griffons; and frescoes depicting Dionysus/Bacchus with his golden drinking cup and the wind god Zephyrus with outspread wings.
The Gracious Art of Living
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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
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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
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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
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•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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bacchus ever fair and young, 271. plumpy, with pink eyne, 158.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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Bacchus amat colles was a Roman maxim: Bacchus loves the hills.
The Bacony Goodness of Côte-Rôtie
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In art, Bacchus is represented as a curly-haired child drinking wine; as a young man, naked apart from a crown of vine leaves and grapes; or heavily drunk, sometimes being put to bed by nymphs and satyrs.
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Autumn, or Bacchus's Trickery of Erigone is one of a pair of oddly shaped canvases, perhaps meant to fit into rococo mouldings, which celebrate Spring and Autumn.
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The capricious god changed Ariadne into the Corona Cressa, or Cretan Diadem, already visible in the heavens in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne as an omen at their first meeting.
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Father Bacchus at Teos, a monopteral; Arcesius, on the Corinthian proportions, and on the Ionic temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands; on the Mausoleum, Satyrus and
The Ten Books on Architecture
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She dined publicly in state; a procession of the municipal magistrates presented her a sample of the wines of the district; and, as she tasted the luscious offering, the coopers celebrated what they called a feast of Bacchus, waving their hoops as they danced round the room in grotesque figures.
The Life of Marie Antoinette
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Titanasque senes louis et cunabula magni15 et sub fratre uiri nomen sine matre parentis atque iterum patrio nascentem corpore Bacchum omniaque inmenso uolitantia lumina mundo. quin etiam ruris cultus legesque notauit militiamque soli; quod collis Bacchus amaret, 20 quod fecunda Ceres campos, quod Pallas utrumque, atque arbusta uagis essent quod adultera pomis, silurumque deos sacrataque flumina nymphis, pacis opus magnos naturae condit in usus. astrorum quidam uarias dixere figuras25 signaque diffuso passim labentia caelo in proprium cuiusque genus causasque tulere:
The Theme of the Astrological Poet
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Whereof the one, in the words of the English chronicler, was "intrayled with anticke works, the old god of wine called Bacchus birlyng the wine, which by the conduits in the erthe ran to all people plenteously with red, white, and claret wine, over whose head was written in letters of Romayn in gold, 'Faicte bonne chere qui vouldra.'
The Story of Rouen
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The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
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The fabulous history of Bacchus relates that he converted the thyrsi carried by himself and his followers into dangerous weapons, by concealing an iron point in the head of leaves.
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We find that they were also used in the ceremonies of the Mysteries, for we see their forms represented on the vases themselves: Bacchus frequently holds a cantharus, Satyrs carry a diota.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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The divertisement ended with a dance of Bacchus and Bacchantes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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Mr. Hill recently bought a 17th-century bronze sculpture of Bacchus and Ceres by this "slightly misunderstood" follower of Giambologna, the 16th-century sculptor.
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Standing by the Christmas tree was Caravaggio's Young Bacchus, his hair festooned with vine leaves and grapes.
RESCUING ROSE
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Pindarus, of Thebes, is as much renowned for his poems, as Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Hercules or Bacchus, his fellow citizens, for their warlike actions; et si famam respicias, non pauciores Aristotelis quam
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I was asked to be the King of Bacchus, which is one of the “Crewes,” as they are called, whose job it is to put together thirty floats for a parade.
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His Bacchus is a wasted pretty-boy, a hustler who looks like Pete Doherty in Greek drag.
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