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BACCHANALIA , the See also:Lat. name for the See also:wild and mystic festivals of Bacchus (See also:Dionysus). They were introduced into See also:Rome from See also:lower See also:Italy by way of See also:Etruria, and held in See also:secret, attended by See also:women only, on three days in the See also:year in the See also:grove of Simila (Stimula, See also:Semele; See also:Ovid, See also:Fasti, vi. 503), near the Aventine See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill. Subsequently, See also:admission to the See also:rites were extended to men and celebrations took See also:place five times a See also:month. The evil reputation of these festivals, at which the grossest debaucheries took place, and all kinds of crimes and See also:political conspiracies were supposed to be planned, led in 186 B.C. to a See also:decree of the senate—the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a See also:bronze tablet discovered in See also:Calabria (164o), now at Vienna—by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout the whole of Italy, except in certain See also:special cases, in which the See also:senate reserved the right of allowing them, subject to certain restrictions. But, in spite of the severe See also:punishment inflicted upon those who were found to be implicated in the criminal practices disclosed by See also:state investigation, the Bacchanalia were not stamped out, at any See also:rate in the See also:south of Italy, for a very See also:long See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time (See also:Livy xxxix. 8–19, 41; x1. 19).
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