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..."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..."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..."