Bacchanal: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>Bacchānal</b>: (old orthog. Bacānal, v. S. C. Bacch. A. V. C. 568, Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 172: baccānal, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 3), ālis, n. from [[Bacchus]], [[like]] Fagutal, [[Frutinal]], [[Lupercal]], etc.; v. App. 1 to the Pref.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[place]] [[devoted]] to [[Bacchus]], the [[place]] [[where]] the festivals of [[Bacchus]] were [[celebrated]]: NE QVIS EORVM BACANAL HABVISE VELET, S. C. Bacch. v. 4: EA BACANALIA... IN DIEBVS X... FACIATIS VTEI DISMOTA SIENT, ib. v. 28: ad Baccas veni in Baccanal, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 3: aperire, id. ib. 8: Bacchanalia, Liv. 39, 18, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in the <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: Bacchānālia, ium (gen. [[sometimes]] Bacchananorum, Sall. H. 3, 79 Dietsch; Firm. Mat. Err. Prof. Relig. 6, 9), a [[feast]] of [[Bacchus]], the [[orgies]] of [[Bacchus]] (diff. from the Roman [[festival]] of [[Liber]]; v. [[Liberalia]]); [[celebrated]] [[once]] in [[three]] years, at [[night]], and in the [[most]] [[tumultuous]] and [[licentious]] [[manner]] (cf. Smith, Antiq.); [[hence]], [[prohibited]] in [[Rome]], A.U.C. 568, B.C. 186, by a [[decree]] of the Senate, Senatusconsultum de Bacchanalibus, [[which]] is [[yet]] preserved (v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 172 sq.); Liv. 39, 9, 3; 39, 12, 4; 39, 16, 10; 39, 18, 7 sq.; 39, 41, 6; Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 37; Tac. H. 2, 68.—Rarely in <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>: [[Bacchanal]] facere, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 43 Lorenz ad loc.; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 20; so, exercere, id Suppos Amph Tun' me mactes? v. 12: habere, in the abovementioned S. C.—Poet.: Bacchanalia vivere, to [[live]] in the [[manner]] of the Bacchantes, to [[live]] riotously and [[wantonly]], Juv. 2, 3.