revel (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. cōmissātio2. bacchātio3. orgia, ōrum, n. pl. (ὄργια4. luxŭria (excess in eating and drinking) • revel (subs.): ; revelling: 1. cōmissātio: to prolong the r.s till midnight, comissationes extendere ad mediam noctem, Suet. Tit. 7: Cic. 2. bacchātio: nightly r., nocturna bacchatio, Cic. Verr. Act. 2, 1, 12, 33. 3. orgia, ōrum, n. pl. (ὄργια: prop. of religious r.s): Italian r.s, Itala orgia, Prop. 3, 1, 4: Juv. 4. luxŭria (excess in eating and drinking): v. riot, debauchery. Phr.: to pass one's days in r., bacchanalia vivere, Juv. 2, 3: he instituted a new dignity, "master of the revels," novum officium instituit "a voluptatibus," Suet. Tib. 42, extr.