Bacchylides

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

Bacchylĭdēs, is, m., = Βακχυλίδης,

I a Greek lyric poet of Ceos , a nephew of Simonides , who lived about 470 B.C., Amm. 25, 4, 3.

II —Hence, Bacchylĭdĭus , a, um, adj., of Bacchylides : metrum, Serv. Centim. 2, 5, p. 1819 P.