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BACCHI

Volume 3 · 59 words · 1815 Edition

in Mechanic, a kind of ancient machines, in form of goats, used by Jupiter, in his wars against the giants. Rudbeck describes two kinds of bacchi, one made like the battering-ram, wherewith Jupiter demolished the enemy's fortifications; the other contrived to cast fire out of, from whence the Greeks are conjectured to have framed their idea of the chimera.