The corpus record — Latin

bacchatio

bacchatio · f

A celebrating of the orgies of Bacchus

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Where it lives

In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

bacchātĭo — Lewis & Short

bacchātĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I A celebrating of the orgies of Bacchus, Hyg. Fab. 4; 8.—Hence.

II A revelling, raving, in the manner of the Bacchœ (rare): sileatur de nocturnis ejus baccationibus ac vigiliis, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 33.

In the wild

bacchationibus Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.33

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.