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bacchic | euoi |

As an adjective bacchic

is .

As an interjection euoi is

a cry of impassioned rapture in ancient bacchic revels.

bacchic

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.

    • See also

    * dionysiac

    References

    * English eponyms

    euoi

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A cry of impassioned rapture in ancient Bacchic revels.
  • * 1909 , Richard Edwin Day, New poems
    • Shall the warriors of Thebes be dumb? " Euoi ! Euoi ! Hail Bacchus ! " They dance to the pipe and drum.
  • * 1983 , George Hitchcock, Kayak
    • Euoi ! Curving vines, delicate tendrils from sinews and tendons. Euoi! Candle flames and sweet smoke sting, swarm with the sound of bees...
  • * 2001 , Ralph Ellis, K2: Quest of the Gods
    • The Bacchic cry of Euoi is not too dissimilar to Jesus' penultimate cry, while on the cross, of Eloi, Eloi.
  • * 2003 , Matthew Dillon, Girls and women in classical Greek religion
    • ...sexually aroused by them but never successful in their urge to debauch them. The maenads, Diodoros continues, cry out 'euoi' ...