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Bacchus (comics), comics character created by Eddie Campbell; Bacchus (grape), white wine grape variety grown in Germany and England; Bacchus (1786 ship), a vessel that made five voyages transporting enslaved people; Bacchus, an express train in Germany 1979–1998; Bacchus Motorcycle Club, an outlaw motorcycle club in Canada
Livy, the principal Roman literary source on the early Bacchanalia, names Paculla Annia, a Campanian priestess of Bacchus, as the founder of a private, unofficial Bacchanalia cult in Rome, based at the grove of Stimula, where the western slope of the Aventine Hill descends to the Tiber.
This association may have arisen because of the homophony of the names Iacchus and Bacchus. Two black-figure lekythoi (c. 500 BC), possibly represent the earliest evidence for such an association. The nearly-identical vases, one in Berlin, [ 133 ] the other in Rome, [ 134 ] depict Dionysus, along with the inscription IAKXNE , a possible ...
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Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.
Baccus may be either a given name or surname shared by several notable people, among them being: Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007), Liberian politician; Kearyn Baccus (born 1991), Australian footballer; Keanu Baccus (born 1998), Australian footballer; Rick Baccus (21st century), United States Army general
In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...
Bromius is another name for Dionysus, the son of Semele and Zeus. Zeus' jealous wife Hera discovered the affair and contrived to influence Semele to request that Zeus revealed his true form to her. Zeus' jealous wife Hera discovered the affair and contrived to influence Semele to request that Zeus revealed his true form to her.