Βάκις
Bakis, Bacis
Translated by David Whitehead7 Aug 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
An epithet of Peisistratos.1
[Bakis] was a chresmologue.2 But Philetas of Ephesos3 says that there were three Bakises: the one from Eleon in Boiotia, the Athenian, and the Arkadian from the city of Kaphye4 -- 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
[Bakis] was a chresmologue.2 But Philetas of Ephesos3 says that there were three Bakises: the one from Eleon in Boiotia, the Athenian, and the Arkadian from the city of Kaphye4 -- 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