Baptae

Baptae

Baptae ( _gr. Βαπταί) may refer to:

* a name given to the priests of Cotytto, the Greek goddess of lewdness, and derived by some from "βάπτω", to tinge or dye, from their painting their cheeks and blackening their eyelids.

* a comedy of the ancient Greek writer Eupolis in which he assailed the effeminacy and debauchery of his countrymen.

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  • Baptae — BAPTAE, arum, Gr. Βάπτες, hießen die weichlichen und weibischen Pfaffen der Göttinn Kotytto, von βάπτω, besprenge, wasche, weil sie entweder mit allen Arten der Unreinigkeit besprengt waren, oder auch solche durch bloßes Wasser wieder abzuwaschen …   Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon

  • BAPTAE — I. BAPTAE Athenis sacerdotes erant Cotyttûs impudicitiae Deae, cui nocturna sacra peragebant saltationibus et omni voluptatum generi indulgentes, Dicti λ᾿πὸ τοῦ Βαπτειν, quod, qui sacris illis initiabantur, aquâ. calidâ tingerentur. Suidas.… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Eupolis — (ca. 446 BC 411 BC) was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, that flourished in the time of the Peloponnesian War. Nothing whatever is known of his personal history. With regard to his death, he is said to have been thrown into the sea by… …   Wikipedia

  • Бапты — (βάπτι) название особых афинских жрецов, о которых до нас дошли лишь весьма неопределенные сведения. Эвполис этим именем назвал одно из своих произведений, в котором осмеял людей с развращенными нравами, между прочим Алкивиада. То же название… …   Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона

  • Kotys [1] — Kotys (Kotytto), eine thrak. Göttin, deren Dienst sich über Griechenland und Italien verbreitete und wegen seiner nächtlichen Orgien, der sogen. Kotyttien, verrufen war. Die Teilnehmer hießen Bapten (baptae), von den damit verbundenen Waschungen …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • CHORUS — I. CHORUS pars Comediae, una ex accessoriis, inter actum et actum: vel pars est, post actum introducta cum concentu. Dicebatur autem sic primo, multitudo canentium saltantiumque cum tibicine: idque antiquitus circa aras Deûm, Virg. aen. l. 6. v.… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • COTYTTO — us, Dea impudicitiae, cui Athenis a Baptis (eô nomine vocabantur eius sacerdotes) nocturna sacra fiebant, quae ab illa vocantur Cotyttia. Hanc Probus saltatticem fuisse existimat, unde etiam sacerdote eius lascivis saltationibus mores eius… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • ORGIA — I. ORGIA Bacchi sacra, aliô nomine Bacchanalia, Dionysiaca, Trieterica, de nocte celebrari solita, omni posthabitâ pudore, teste Liviô, l. 39. c. 9. 10. 13. 17. in Thracia primum ab Orpheo instituta, a quo etiam Orphica dicta sunt, Diodorô Siculô …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

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