Βάπται (Baptai)
(“Baptizers” or “Dyers”)

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Testimonia
test, i
Lucian, Adversus Indoctum 27
άνέγνως καί τούς Βάπτας, τό δράμα δλον; εϊτ’ ούδέν σου τάκεΐ καθίκετο,
ούδ’ ήρυθρίασας γνωρίσας αύτά;
Did you in fact read Baptai, the whole play? Did its contents then have no
effect on you, and did you not blush when you understood them?
= test. 29, where see n.

test, ii
Juvenal 2.91-2
talia secreta coluerunt taeda
Cecropiam soliti Baptae lassare Cotyto
The Baptae, accustomed to disgust Cecropian Cotyto,
practiced torch-lit secret rites such as these
Σπ 2.92 (p. 24 Wessner)
Baptae titulus libri, quo inpudici describuntur ab Eupolide, qui inducit viros
ad imitationem feminarum saltantes. Baptae autem molies: quo titulo Eupolis
comoediam scripsit, ob quam ab Alcibiade, quem praecipue perstrinxerat,
necatus est. ad exemplum Cotyti dicitur Isiaca sacra celebrari
Baptae is the title of a book in which shameless individuals are described
by Eupolis, who brings onstage men dancing to imitate women. Baptae
however are emasculated individuals; Eupolis wrote a comedy by this title, as
a consequence of which he was killed by Alcibiades, whom he had criticized
with particular vigor. The mysteries of Isis are said to be celebrated on the
model of Cotyto
Σζ 2.92 (p. 24 Wessner)
Baptae quo titulo scripsit Eupolis comoediam, in quo inducit viros Athenienses
ad imitationem feminarum lassare (p)saltriam
Baptae: Eupolis wrote a comedy by this title, in which he induced Athenian
men in imitation of women to disgust a harp-girl