The Bacchic ritual produced what was called'enthusiasm', which means etymologically having the god enter the worshipper, who believed : that he became one with the god ".
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Aristeas narrates in the course of his poem that he was " wrapt in Bacchic fury " when he travelled to the north and saw the Arimaspians, as reported by Herodotus:
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In Vergil's " Aeneid ", purple flowers are strewn with the pouring of Bacchic libations during the funeral rites the hero Aeneas conducts for his dead father.
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The front of the base bears an inscription by Pietro Bembo; the sides bear scenes of the triumph of Ariadne and of the sacrifice of a goat in a Bacchic rite.
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Laura gorges on the delicious fruit in a sort of bacchic frenzy, then once she is finished, after picking up one of the seeds, returns home in an ecstatic trance.
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Carnival, a book that came soon after Cinza das Horas opens with the unpredictable : the evocation of the Bacchic and satanic carnival, but it ends in the middle of melancholy.
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Or all those Florida State co-eds who spent New Year's hoisting their tank tops up over their shoulders to the delirious delight of the leering, bacchic French Quarter crowd.
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Yet the " Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus " itself allows women to outnumber men, by three to two, at any permitted gathering; and it expressly forbids Bacchic priesthoods to men.
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Most of his poems are erotic and bacchic in the style of Anacreon; two exceptions are an ode for the opening of Gheorghe Lazr's school and a vaguely Voltairean ode to mankind.
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The reformed Bacchic cults bore little resemblance to the crowded, ecstatic and uninhibited Bacchanalia : every cult meeting was restricted to five initiates and each could be held only with a praetor's consent.
