a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus; accompanied by wild bacchanalian cries
Latin word, found 26 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 4.521: inter sacra deum nocturnique orgia Bacchi
Plautus, Pseudolus 1.1.67a: nostrorum órgiorum—iunculae
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.28: … paratis, decem rursus diebus inanimis contentus cibis, insuper etiam deraso capite, principalis dei nocturnis orgiis illustratus, plena iam fiducia germanae religionis obsequium divinum frequentabam. Quae res summum peregrinat …
All forms of orgia