LOGOI

The corpus record

Βάκχ-ειος

*bakcheios

of, belonging to Bacchus, his rites

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Bacchae 7 · 9.31/10k
  • Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
  • Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
  • Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
  • Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
  • Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
  • Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
  • Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
  • Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
  • Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
  • Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

of, belonging to Bacchus, his rites, frenzied, rapt

of or belonging to Bacchus and his rites, βότρυς S. Fr. 255.2; νόμος E. Hec. 686 (lyr.); ῥυθμός X. Smp. 9.3, etc.: hence, frenzied, rapt, Β. Διόνυσος h.Hom. 19.46, cf. Hdt. 4.79; ὁ Β. θεός S. OT 1105 (lyr.); Βάκχειε δεσπότʼ Ar. Th. 988 (lyr.), cf. IG 4.558.20 (Argos), etc.; τὸν Β. ἄνακτα, of Aeschylus, Ar. Ra. 1259.

II

as Subst., Βάκχιος, ὁ, = Βάκχος, S. Ant. 154 (lyr.), E. Cyc. 9:—also, = οἶνος, Id. IT 953, Cyc. 519, Antiph. 237.

2

Βάκχια or Βακχ-εῖα, τά, v. Βακχεῖον.

3 the bacchius, a metrical foot of three syllables

Βακχεῖος (sc. πούς), ὁ, the bacchius, a metrical foot of three syllables, _ _ ⏑, D.H. Comp. 17 (opp. ὑποβ. ⏑ _ _); but later ⏑ _ _, Heph. 3 (opp. παλιμβ. _ _ ⏑), etc.; also β. ἀπὸ τροχαίου (_ ⏑ ⏑ _), ἀπʼ ἰάμβου (⏑ _ _ ⏑), Aristid.Quint. 1.17, cf. Anon.Rhythm. Oxy. 9 iii 12; = ⏑ ⏑ _ _, Bacch. Harm. 101.

In the wild

6 of 24 attestations shown. Ask for more.

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.

Ask the librarian

Ask about Βάκχ-ειος →