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Headword:
*katebakxeu/onto
Adler number: beta,54
Translated headword: celebrating the mysteries of Bacchus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he who] is acting frenzied.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] katebakxeu/onto ["they were going like Bacchants"], that is filled with some spirit of divine inspiration. "They were going like Bacchants to the culminating act, driven into its embrace by a temperate madness."[2]
Greek Original:*bakxeu/wn: maino/menos. kai\ *katebakxeu/onto, toute/stin e)neqousi/wn e)pipnoi/as tino\s plhrwqe/ntes. e)p' au)th/n pou th\n telesiourgo\n katebakxeu/onto pra=cin xwrei=n sw/froni mani/a| e)s sumplokh\n e)coistrou/menoi.
Notes:
The online headword, mistakenly, is the supplementary lemma in the entry; it should be the participle
bakxeu/wn.
[1] Likewise in other lexica; and cf.
beta 53.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.5.1 (of the preliminaries to a military encounter); again at
tau 261; cf. de Boor (196) and Whitby (138). On Domitianus and his rousing speech to Roman troops, see
alpha 1277.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 January 2002@13:56:55.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 1 February 2002@02:56:40.
David Whitehead (added prefatory note and more keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 18 May 2012@06:48:24.
David Whitehead on 23 August 2013@06:03:38.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@00:29:21.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-reference, and keyword) on 29 January 2025@12:12:22.
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