Nyseus

Latin Etymology Borrowed from la grc Νῡσεύς; related to grc Νῦσα and la Nȳsa. Pronunciation Nȳse_us Proper noun la proper noun m Nȳse͡us genitive *Nȳseī or *Nȳseos a name of Bacchus, literally it means "person from Nysa" Publius Ovidius Naso, metamorphoses, liber IV. In: Ovid Metamorphoses with an English translation by Frank Justus Miller. In two Volumes I Books I–VIII, 1951, p. 178f.: pārent mātrēsque nurūsque tēlāsque calathōsque īnfectaque pēnsa repōnunt tūraque dant Bacchumque vocant Bromiumque Lyaeumque ignigenamque satumque iterum sōlumque bimātrem ; additur hīs Nȳseus indētōnsusque Thyōneus et cum Lēnaeō geniālis cōnsitor ūvae Nycteliusque Eleleusque parēns et Iacchus et Euhān, et quae praetereā per Graiās plūrima gentēs nōmina, Līber, habēs. The matrons and young wives all obey, put by weaving and work-baskets, leave their tasks unfinished ; they burn incense, calling on Bacchus, naming him also Bromius,1 Lyaeus,2 son of the thunderbolt, twice born, child of two mothers ; they hail him as Nyseus3 also, Thyoneus4 of the unshorn locks, Lenaeus,5 planter of the joy-giving vine, Nyctelius,6 father Eleleus,7 Iacchus,8 and Euhan, and all the many names besides by which thou art known, O Liber,9 throughout the towns of Greece. 1 "The noisy one." 2 "The deliverer from care." 3 "Of Nysa," a city in India, connected traditionally with the infancy of Bacchus. 4 "Son of Thyone," the name given to his mother, Semele, after her translation to the skies. 5 "God of the wine-press." 6 So named from the fact that his orgies were celebrated in the night. 7 From the wild cries uttered by his worshippers in the orgies. 8 A name identified with Bacchus. 9 Either from liber, " the free," or from libo, " he to whom libations of wine are poured." References Nȳseus (dissyl.), s.v. Nȳsa Nysa2 Nȳseūs 1050