(In ancient Greece and Rome) God of wine; equivalent of Dionysus.
In Greek and Roman mythology, the god of fertility (see Dionysus) and of wine; his rites (the Bacchanalia) were orgiastic.
Bog vina, sin Zevsa i Semele; fig. vino; dobar vinopija, pijanica, bekrija (Grci su ga zvali i Dionizos).
Prijatelj muza, bog vina i vinogradarstva kod starih Grka; Bahus.