bacchor

• baccor

From Bacchus +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbak.kʰɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbak.kor]

bacchor (present infinitive bacchārī, perfect active bacchātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to celebrate the festival or rites of Bacchus
2. to revel, rave or rant like the bacchanals
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.26:

     Hic, tū quā laetitiā perfruere, quibus gaudiīs exultābis, quanta in voluptāte bacchābere, cum in tantō numerō tuōrum neque audiēs virum bonum quemquam neque vidēbis!

     Here, what happiness will you enjoy, in what delights will you exult, in [what] great pleasure will you revel, when among such a large number of your own men you will neither hear nor see a single good man!

3. to go, run or roam about in a wild, raving, raging or furious manner
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.300–301:

     Saevit inops animī, tōtamque incēnsa per urbem / bacchātur [...].

     [Dido] raves out of her mind, and having become agitated, all through the city she roams wildly [...].
     (So begins the simile of Dido behaving like a bacchante or bacchanal; i.e., her people see their queen overcome with unrestrained emotion.)

4. (of inanimate things) to be furious, rage with fury

• “bacchor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bacchor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bacchor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.