AGRIONIA, in Grecian Antiquity, festivals annually celebrated by the Bacotians in honour of Bacchus. At these festivals the women pretended to search after Bacchus as a fugitive, and, after some time, gave over their inquiry, saying that he had fled to the Muses, and was concealed among them.
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