feasts celebrated in honour of Bacchus by the ancients. The two most remarkable were called the greater and lesser. The latter called Lenea, from a word signifying a wine press, were held in the open fields about autumn; the greater, called Dionysia, from one of the names of Bacchus, were celebrated in the city, about the spring-time. Both these feasts were accompanied with games, spectacles, and theatrical representations; and it was at this time the poets contended for the prize of poetry. Those who were initiated into the celebration of these feasts, represented, some Silenus, others Pan, others Satyrs, and in this manner appeared in public, night and day, counterfeiting drunkenness, dancing obscenely, and committing all kinds of licentiousness and debauchery. See Bacchus.