bacchata
Dictionary entries
- Entry →bacchor, bacchari, bacchatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
celebrate rites of Bacchus; revel/rave/riot; run wild; be frenzied/raving mad;
abl. sg. perf. part.acc. pl. perf. part.nom. sg. perf. part.nom. pl. perf. part.voc. sg. perf. part.voc. pl. perf. part.
Examples
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...unde tubae nocturnaque movit Erinys? Dindyma sanguineis famulum bacchata lacertis dum volucri quatit asper equo silvasque fatigat Cyzicus..."- P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...movet et superis immissa repente Allecto medias Italum bacchata per urbes. nil super imperio moveor. speravimus ista..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...siluasque inglorius. o ubi campi Spercheosque et uirginibus bacchata Lacaenis Taygeta! o qui me gelidis conuallibus Haemi sistat..."