daduchi

daduchi
dādūchus, i, m., Gr. daidouchos, the torch - bearer.—Plur.: dādūchi, the priests of Ceres (Demeter) at Eleusis, who guided the initiated with torches to the temple on the fifth day of the Mysteries, Front. Ep. ad Verr. 1; Fabrett. Inscr. 676, no. 29.

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  • DADUCHI — Gr. Δαδοῦχοι, Lat. Faciferi, et Ι῾εροφάνται Δᾳδοῦχοι, Doctores sacrorum faciferi, recepta in facris Cereris seu Thesmophoriis olim vocabula, Iul. Pollux Onomast. l. 1. c. 1. n. 31. Sic Calliam Cereris Sacerdotem Δᾳδοῦχον vocat Plutarch. Aristide …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • CEREALIA — orum, sacra Cereris a Triptolemo instituta, quae Plinius, l. 24. c. 9. Thesmophoria vocat, a Cerere Thesmophoro, h. e. legum latrice. Haec autem festa tantâ religione celebrabantur, ut feriae pollutae crederentur, si quis eô tempore cum uxore… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • ELEUSA — I. ELEUSA Ciliciae opp. mcditerraneum, Plin. Niger insulam facit, et dicit hodie Corcu vocari. Item ins. ex opposito Cypri. Item Ins. Asiae min. in mari Lycio, in ora, inter Rhodum ad Austr. et Lyciam ad Bor. eadem quae Syme. II. ELEUSA Graece… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • METRAGYRTA — Graece Μητραγύρτης, Callias vocatur Aristoteli Rhetor. ad Theodect. l. 3. c. 2. Λέγω δ᾿ δ᾿ οἷον, οὐπεὶ τὰ ἐναντία εν τῷ αὐτῷ γένει, τὸ φᾶναι τὸν μὲν πτωχεύοντα ἔυχεςθαι, τὸν δ᾿ ἐυχόμενον πτωχεύειν. ἵτι ἄμφω ἀιτήσεις, τὸ εἰρημένον ἐςτὶ ποιεῖν, Ω῾ς …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

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