Bacchante, frantic handmaid
Bacchante, A. Eu. 25, S. Ant. 1122 (lyr.), Ar. Nu. 605, Pl. Ion 534a, etc.: generally, Βάκχη Ἅιδου frantic handmaid of Hades, E. Hec. 1077; β. νεκύων Id. Ph. 1489 (lyr.).
II pear
a kind of pear, Nic. Al. 354, Th. 513.
The corpus record
Βάκχη
*bakche · ἡ
Bacchante, frantic handmaid, pear
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Where it lives
- Bacchae 22 · 29.25/10k
- Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
- Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
- Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Βάκχαις · Bakchais Aeschylus, Eumenides 24–26
- βάκχαι · bakchai Euripides, Bacchae 1168
- βάκχαι · bakchai Euripides, Bacchae 83–87
- βάκχαι · bakchai Euripides, Bacchae 83–87
- βάκχαι · bakchai Euripides, Bacchae 985–986
- βάκχαι · bakchai Euripides, Bacchae 1088–1092
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.