The corpus record — Latin

Bacchiadae

Bacchiadae · m

the Bacchiadœ

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Bacchĭădae — Lewis & Short

Bacchĭădae, ārum, m., = *bakxia/dai,

I the Bacchiadœ, a very ancient royal family of Corinth, descended from Bacchis, one of the Heraclidœ, which, being expelled from the throne by Cypselus, wandered to Sicily, and founded Syracuse, Ov. M. 5, 407; Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 152 (cf. Aelian, V. H. 1, 19; Pausan. Corinth. p. 120; Strabo, 8, p. 260).

In the wild

Bacchiadae Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.407
Bacchiadas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.12.p2

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.