The Devil's Dictionary: Bacchus
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
BACCHUS
-n.
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Is public worship, then, a sin,
That for devotions paid to Bacchus
The lictors dare to run us in,
And resolutely thump and whack us?
That for devotions paid to Bacchus
The lictors dare to run us in,
And resolutely thump and whack us?
-Jorace
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