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Headword:
Κατεβακχεύοντο
Adler number: beta,54
Translated headword: celebrating the mysteries of Bacchus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he who] is acting frenzied.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] κατεβακχεύοντο ["they were going like Bacchants"], that is filled with some spirit of divine inspiration. "They were going like Bacchants to the culminating act, driven into its embrace by a temperate madness."[2]
Greek Original:Βακχεύων: μαινόμενος. καὶ Κατεβακχεύοντο, τουτέστιν ἐνεθουσίων ἐπιπνοίας τινὸς πληρωθέντες. ἐπ' αὐτήν που τὴν τελεσιουργὸν κατεβακχεύοντο πρᾶξιν χωρεῖν σώφρονι μανίᾳ ἐς συμπλοκὴν ἐξοιστρούμενοι.
Notes:
The online headword, mistakenly, is the supplementary lemma in the entry; it should be the participle
βακχεύων .
[1] cf.
beta 53.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta 5.5.1 (of the preliminaries to a military encounter); again at
tau 261.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 January 2002@13:56:55.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 1 February 2002@02:56:40.
David Whitehead (added prefatory note and more keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 18 May 2012@06:48:24.
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