Rumor has it that Drake’s next mix-tape contains a rap in which every verse begins and ends with a bacchius.

A contestant was given the word ‘bacchius’ to spell.

According to Zenobius V. 8. the Megarians mourned for a daughter of their own king Clytius, and of Bacchius the Corinthian.339.This event is always narrated in explanation of the proverb; see Schol.

Besides these, which are called dactylic Alcaics, there is another, simply styled Alcaic, consisting of an epitrite, two choriambi and a bacchius; thus— Cur timet fla|vum Tiberim | tangere, cur | olivum?

Bacchius, ' ' u = He'lve'llyn.