debacchor

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

dē-bacchor, ātus, 1,

I v. dep. n., to rave like the Bacchantes, to rage without control, revel wildly (rare): si satis jam debacchatus es, leno, Ter. Ad. 184 sq.; Hier. in Ies. 11, 37, 26.—

II Poet., of inanimate things, to rage : qua parte debacchentur ignes, * Hor. Od. 3, 3, 55.

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