Bacchis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Bacchis, ĭdis, f., = Βακχίς.

I = 1. Baccha, q. v.—

II The name of a woman in the Hec. and Heaut. of Terence; and, in plur., Bacchides, the name of a comedy of Plautus (derived from the twin sisters, Bacchides, the chief personages of the piece): Bacchides non Bacchides, set Bacchae sunt acerrumae, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 4.

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