Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.
The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said.
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.
The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.
