Definitionn. an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus
Last update: February 6, 2017
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The evil reputation of these festivals, at which the grossest debaucheries took place, and all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies were supposed to be planned, led in 186 B.C. to a decree of the senate - the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Calabria (1640), now at Vienna - by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout the whole of Italy, except in certain special cases, in which the senate reserved the right of allowing them, subject to certain restrictions. [Please select]
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Their life was dominated by suburban bacchanalia of alcohol, nicotine, gasoline, and kisses. [Please select]
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CHAPTER I The morning after the bacchanalia in the saloon of the palace, the divan was covered with young patricians. [Please select]
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