Dionysus, the god of the vine or wine; the son of Zeus and Semele (q.v.), the “twice born,” as plucked first from the womb of his dead mother and afterwards brought forth from the thigh of Zeus, which served to him as his “incubator.” See Bacchus.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dionysius Periegetes * Diophantus