god
Bacchus
also: Bacchae, Bacchis, Bacchanals
The wine-god Dionysus/Bacchus; in Fam. 7.23 the plural 'Bacchae' denotes statues of his ecstatic female devotees (maenads), the figures Gallus bought for Cicero and compared with the Muses of Metellus.
god
also: Bacchae, Bacchis, Bacchanals
The wine-god Dionysus/Bacchus; in Fam. 7.23 the plural 'Bacchae' denotes statues of his ecstatic female devotees (maenads), the figures Gallus bought for Cicero and compared with the Muses of Metellus.