Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.215 wine

  God of wine and ecstatic revel, also called Iacchus and Liber; his rites and vines recur (Eclogues 3, 5, 6, 7).

• The Aeneid §3.354 Bacchus

  God of wine; his 'cups' are poured in libation at Helenus's feast.

• The Aeneid §4.58 Lyaeus

  Bacchus under his title Lyaeus, the 'looser of care'; honoured at the marriage-rite.

• The Aeneid §6.805 Bacchus

  The wine-god Liber, who drives his tigers from Nysa; Augustus's range outdoes even his.

• The Aeneid §8.181 Bacchus

  God of wine; 'Bacchus' is the wine served at table.

• The Eclogues §5.30 Bacchus

  God of wine and ecstatic revel, also called Iacchus and Liber; his rites and vines recur (Eclogues 3, 5, 6, 7).

• The Georgics §1.7 Liber

  An Italian fertility-god identified with Bacchus, the giver of the vine; invoked with Ceres at the poem's opening.