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Definition of Bacchus

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  BACCHUS   noun
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?

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911
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