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Headword:
*ba/kis
Adler number: beta,47
Translated headword: Bakis, Bacis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An epithet of Peisistratos.[1]
[Bakis] was a chresmologue.[2] But
Philetas of
Ephesos[3] says that there were three Bakises: the one from Eleon in Boiotia, the Athenian, and the Arkadian from the city of Kaphye[4] -- the one also called Kydas and Aletes.[5] Theopompos in [book] 9 of
Philippika has many extraordinary stories about this Bakis, including the fact that on one occasion he purified the mad womenfolk of the Spartans -- Apollo having given him to them as purifier.[6]
*ba/kis: e)pi/qeton *peisistra/tou. h)=n de\ xrhsmolo/gos. *filh/tas de\ o( *)efe/sio/s fhsi trei=s *ba/kidas: o( me\n e)c *)elew=nos th=s *boiwti/as, o( de\ *)aqhnai=os, o( de\ *)arka\s e)k po/lews *kafu/hs, o(\s kai\ *ku/das e)kalei=to kai\ *)alh/ths. *qeo/pompos de\ e)n th=| q# tw=n *filippikw=n a)/lla te polla\ peri\ tou/tou tou= *ba/kidos i(storei= para/doca, kai\ o(/ti pote\ tw=n *lakedaimoni/wn ta\s gunai=kas manei/sas e)ka/qhren, *)apo/llwnos tou/tois tou=ton kaqarth\n do/ntos.
Notes:
On Bakis see generally OCD(4) p.221 (under "Bacis"); it notes that his oracles were mentioned from
Herodotus onwards and that "[t]o cope with the mass of oracles from manifestly different dates, later authors assumed several Bacides".
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. This must be P. the C6-BCE tyrant of
Athens (
pi 1474). The precise import of his nickname is not obvious from this bare reference to it, but
Herodotus 5.90.2 mentions that the Peisistratids had kept an oracle-collection on the Acropolis (which the invading Spartans who expelled the family in 510 took away with them).
[2] A word of several related meanings all to do with oracles: -collector, -speaker, -expounder.
[3] Cross-referenced at
phi 333 but otherwise unknown.
[4] More exactly
Kaphyai; see
kappa 1149.
[5] cf.
kappa 2607.
[6]
Theopompus FGrH 115 F77. This whole paragraph of the entry comes from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 1071; cf.
kappa 40, and see generally R. Parker,
Miasma (Oxford 1983) 20.
J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1978), ch. 5
Keywords: biography; geography; historiography; history; medicine; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 August 2001@04:39:40.
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