From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- female Bacchant; Bacchae
Meaning
The Bacchae accompany Silenos with the Naiads and take part in the Lenaian rites at LIV.6 and 9. The feminine forms identify female members of the Bacchic company, not individually named goddesses. At line 6 the apparatus attributes Βάκχαις to Dinner against βάκχοις, so the feminine identification there is a consequential adopted reading.
Places to read
- Hymn LIV · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Βάκχαις
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LIV.6; LIV.9