Βακχεῖος
α, ον, α, ον, ος, Subst., ὁ
A.
of or belonging to Bacchus and his rites, βότρυς S. Fr. 255.2; νόμος E. Hec. 686 (lyr.); ῥυθμός X. Smp. 9.3, etc.: hence, frenzied, rapt, Β. Διόνυσος h.Hom. 19.46, cf. Hdt. 4.79; ὁ Β. θεός S. OT 1105 (lyr.); Βάκχειε δεσπότ’ Ar. Th. 988 (lyr.), cf. IG 4.558.20 (Argos), etc.; τὸν Β. ἄνακτα, of Aeschylus, Ar. Ra. 1259.
II.
as Subst., Βάκχιος,ὁ, = Βάκχος, S. Ant. 154 (lyr.), E. Cyc. 9:—also, = οἶνος, Id. IT 953, Cyc. 519, Antiph. 237.
2.
Βάκχια or Βακχ‐εῖα, τά, v. Βακχεῖον.
3.
Βακχεῖος (sc. πούς), ὁ, the bacchius, a metrical foot of three syllables, _ _ ^, D.H. Comp. 17 (opp. ὑποβ. ^ _ _); but later ^ _ _, Heph. 3 (opp. παλιμβ. _ _ ^), etc.; also β. ἀπὸ τροχαίου (_ ^ ^ _), ἀπ’ ἰάμβου (^ _ _ ^), Aristid.Quint. 1.17, cf. Anon.Rhythm. Oxy. 9 iii 12; = ^ ^ _ _, Bacch. Harm. 101.