soothsayers
Boeotian prophet, Hdt. 8.20, 77, al.; acc. Βάκιν Ar. Pax 1071; others are mentioned in Sch. Ar. l.c.: hence in pl., Βάκιδες, οἱ, soothsayers, Arist. Pr. 954a36.
The corpus record
Βάκις
bakis · ὁ
soothsayers
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Where it lives
- Theages 1 · 2.88/10k
- Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Βάκιδος · Bakidos Herodotus, Histories 8.20.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8548)
- Βάκιδι · Bakidi Herodotus, Histories 8.20.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8549)
- Βάκιδι · Bakidi Herodotus, Histories 8.77.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8875)
- Βάκιδι · Bakidi Herodotus, Histories 8.96.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8985)
- Βάκιδι · Bakidi Herodotus, Histories 9.43.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9625)
- Βάκις · Bakis Plato, Theages 124
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.