Definitions
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- noun In the Eleusinian Mysteries, the branches that initiates swung along the ground along the Sacred Way, the twenty two kilometer pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek βάκχοι, from Βάκχος
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Examples
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-- "Many are called, but few chosen": Narthêkophoroi men polloi, bakchoi de te pauroi.
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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+Transliteration: Narthêkophoroi men polloi, bakchoi de te pauroi.
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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‘Many arc called but few chosen’ — and under the privileges of the Christian Church, as in other mysteries, — polloi men narthēkophoroi, bakchoi de ge pauroi.
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* polloi men narthēkophoroi, bakchoi de ge pauroi: [273] 1
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