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Headword: Κατεβακχεύοντο
Adler number: beta,54
Translated headword: Celebrating the mysteries of Bacchus
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Acting frenzied.[1]
Also katebakkheuonto ["they went like Bacchants"], that is, filled with some spirit of divine inspiration. "They went 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:
[1] Cf. beta 53.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, ed. de Boor, 5.5.1 (of the preliminaries to a military encounter); again at tau 261.
Keywords: definition; historiography; military affairs; religion
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.
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