The corpus record — Latin

dādūchus

dādūchus · m

the torch - bearer.—Plur

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What it meant — Lewis & Short

dādūchus, i, m., Gr. da|dou=xos,

I 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.

Where it came from

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