β57Βάκχος
Bakkhos, Bacchus
Thus he used to call not only Dionysos, but also all those who celebrate the orgies; indeed the initiates do not also carry the branches. It is also a kind of wreath. "They wreathed the their heads with bacchic…
Βάκχος· οὕτως οὐ μόνον τὸν Διόνυσον ἐκάλει, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάντας τοὺς τελοῦντας τὰ ὄργια· οὐ μὴν καὶ τοὺς κλάδους οἱ μύσται φέρουσιν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ στεφάνου εἶδος. Βάκχοισιν κεφαλὰς…
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