an ancient Greek festival, in honour of Bacchus, named Omophagos, i.e. eater of raw flesh. This festival was observed in the same manner with the other festivals of Bacchus, in which they counterfeited madness. What was peculiar to it, was, that the worshippers used to eat the entrails of goats, raw and bloody, in imitation of the god, who was supposed to do the same thing.