bacchius

(120) Justin was even willing to bet his life that Christians would be proven innocent of any crime if the government would simply investigate the allegations, and he did not write anonymously; instead, he identified himself by name: "Justin, son of Priscus and grandson of Bacchius, from Flavia Neapolis in Syria-Palestine." (121) In his appeal to the emperor's reason, Justin says, "if nobody can prove anything against us, true reason forbids you because of an evil rumour to wrong innocent people, and indeed rather to wrong yourselves, who think fit to instigate action not by judgment but by passion." (122)

bacchius from Fuenmayor 2 described by Martinez-Salanova (1987), and it is somewhat more complicated than that of V.

Bacchius (3rd century BC) commented on a Hippocratic document, On Carcinosis, but this no longer exists.

Levin says that, according to Bacchius, melody provides the conditions for music's existence, while music subsists by virtue of melody.

In classical, particularly Latin, prosody, the first two syllables are long and the last is short (- - U ); this foot is not used in itself as the basis for any rhythm, but rather as a variant of the bacchius. In accentual or modern prosody, the first two syllables have either primary or intermediate stress and the last is unstressed.