The corpus record

Βακχ-εία

*bakcheia · ἡ

Bacchic frenzy, revelry

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — LSJ

Bacchic frenzy, revelry, frenzy, Bacchic orgies

Bacchic frenzy, revelry, Βακχείας καλῆς A. Ch. 698, cf. E. Ba. 232, Arist. Pol. 1342b4; ἡδονῇ δοὺς ἔς τε Β. πεσών (prob. for -εῖον) E. Ph. 21; τῆς φιλοσόφου μανίας τε καὶ Βακχείας the madness and frenzy of philosophy, Pl. Smp. 218b: in pl., Bacchic orgies, E. Ba. 218, 1293.

In the wild

βακχειῶν · bakcheiōn Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 99)
βακχειῶν · bakcheiōn Plato, Laws 790

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.

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