bacchanalia

Updated: June 25, 2025

But the admission of the worship of the Mother of the Gods was a bad sign of the weakness which the government felt in presence of the new superstition, perhaps even of the extent to which it was itself pervaded by it; and it showed in like manner either an unpardonable negligence or something still worse, that the authorities only took steps against such proceedings as the Bacchanalia at so late a stage, and even then on an accidental information.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Matthew Arnold expressed, I think, his own secret faith, in the beautiful lines of his early poem, "The Bacchanalia or the New Age": The epoch ends, the world is still. The age has talk'd and work'd its fill

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2