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n. - (classical mythology) a priest or votary of the god of wine; A drunken reveler; Someone who engages in drinking bouts.

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  • Sillakes, while Jason handed over to one of the members of the chorus the dress of Pentheus, and, laying hold of the head of Crassus, and, putting on the air of a...
  • A fat, stalwart, bacchant, boorish race they are, giving signs of anything but fasting and flagellation; and I know of nothing that would so dissipate the romance which...
  • With bacchant dance and choral hymn
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