bacchatio

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

bacchātĭo, ōnis, f. [bacchor].

I A celebrating of the orgies of Bacchus , Hyg. Fab. 4; 8.—Hence.

II A revelling , raving , in the manner of the Bacchae (rare): sileatur de nocturnis ejus baccationibus ac vigiliis, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 33.

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