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Dionysus is the Greek counterpart to the better-known Roman Bacchus.Bacchus = Roman mythology: god of wine
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The boy with the wild face is Bacchus... (source)Bacchus = Roman god of wine
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You heard how Bacchus dealt with the Alodai twins in the Colosseum.† (source)Bacchus = Roman mythology: god of wine
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The most crudely touched-up photographs were circulated, depicting him dressed as Bacchus with a garland of grapes around his head, cavorting with opulent matrons and athletes of his own sex in a perpetual orgy.† (source)
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Adams found the total effect greatly to his liking, but thought temples to Venus and Bacchus unnecessary, as mankind had "no need of artificial incitements to such amusements."† (source)
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It's Antipov, Lara's husband Strelnikov, scaring the wolves in the Shutma as Bacchus would say.† (source)
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"Go with Bacchus," Robert Jordan said in Spanish.† (source)Bacchus = Roman mythology: god of wine
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The Greeks tell of King Midas, who had the luck to win from Bacchus the offer of whatsoever boon he might desire.† (source)
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What had she done with it, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, for Rose's arrangement of the grapes and pears, of the horny pink-lined shell, of the bananas, made her think of a trophy fetched from the bottom of the sea, of Neptune's banquet, of the bunch that hangs with vine leaves over the shoulder of Bacchus (in some picture), among the leopard skins and the torches lolloping red and gold...Thus brought up suddenly into the light it seemed possessed of great size and depth, was like a world in which one could take one's staff and climb hills, she thought, and go down into valleys, and to her pleasure (for it brought them into sympathy momentarily) she saw that Augustus too feasted his eyes on the same† (source)
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When their laughter had died down, Eliza said: "And this—as the fellow says—is Uncle Bacchus."† (source)
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Even drunken Bacchus, Hans Castorp thought, had propped himself on his exuberant companions without losing anything of his divinity, and ultimately it depended on who was drunk—a personality or a tinker.† (source)
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Students, citizens, soldiers, girls and matrons whirled light-heartedly before the inn with the figure of Bacchus for a sign.† (source)
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Then addressing the limp figure, Messala said, amidst profound silence, "O Bacchus!† (source)
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He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.† (source)
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They were in the main reduced copies of ancient marbles, and comprised divinities of a very different character from those the girl was accustomed to see portrayed, among them being a Venus of standard pattern, a Diana, and, of the other sex, Apollo, Bacchus, and Mars.† (source)
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Raphael's face was found boldly executed on the underside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on the head of a beer barrel.† (source)
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