daduchus

daduchus
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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