BACCHUS, N. A Convenient Deity Invented By The Ancients As An Excuse For Getting Drunk.

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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?
Jorace
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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