Bacchus (Bac`chus) , son of Zeus and Semele, the god of the vine, and promoter of its culture as well as the civilisation which accompanied it; represented as riding in a car drawn by tame tigers, and carrying a Thyrsus (q.v.); he rendered signal service to Zeus in the war of the gods with the Giants (q.v.). See Dionysus.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bacchantes * Bacchyl`ides