Brewer's: Bacchanalia

Festivals in honour of Bacchus, distinguished for their licentiousness and debauchery. Plato says he has seen the whole population of Athens drunk at these festivals.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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