. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . , si artdtrt dignum est,Iimiiturfmori, mahrnuijiie tempora amipkt. Thcocrit. Idyl. 26. Xaipoi piv Atoiuffoc, 6v iv ApaKav tpvityotvTiZtvc; vnaroQ ptyd\av tViyHjttfa OtjKaro Xt/ffac. But different accounts have been given of Bacchus, and thesame name also given to several deities. He was the Osirisof the Egyptians, from whom the fables respecting himwere taken by the
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . , si artdtrt dignum est,Iimiiturfmori, mahrnuijiie tempora amipkt. Thcocrit. Idyl. 26. Xaipoi piv Atoiuffoc, 6v iv ApaKav tpvityotvTiZtvc; vnaroQ ptyd\av tViyHjttfa OtjKaro Xt/ffac. But different accounts have been given of Bacchus, and thesame name also given to several deities. He was the Osirisof the Egyptians, from whom the fables respecting himwere taken by the Greeks, who worshipped him as the godof wine, and in honour of whom annual feasts were cele-(I among the ancients, called Orgies, Bacchanalia, Dio- nysia, &c. rVide Bacchus, under Numismatics] Horn. ; 1, c. ISO; Euripid. in Bacch. j Apollod. 1. 1 ; Aral, in Phantom.; Diodor. 1. I ; Hygitl. Fab. 155,&c.; Ihil. de Isid, el Osir. ; Senec. in (hor. CEdip.; Lu-eian. <te Saerif. Bacch.; Lactant. de Fal. Belig. 1. 1; 17- BACCHUS (Nnmis.) is represented in the form of a boy orvouth, an old man, or a female, as in figs. 1, 2, S ; he is stly naked, H in tig-I, where he stands under the shadow. of a vine-branch modus is ofiering him divine honours; but sometimes partly BAC clothed, as in fig. 1, and entirely so, as in fig. 3, where hestands between two female figures, representing the riversBillicus and Sardo, of the Tyaneans. The head of Bacchui
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