Bakis

The Bacidae 1883 by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (two soothsayers, called Bacidae, in a prophetic ecstasy reading chicken entrails).

Bakis (also Bacis; Greek: Βάκις) is a general name for the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C.[1] Philetas of Ephesus,[2] Aelian[3] and John Tzetzes[4] distinguish between three: a Boeotian, an Arcadian and an Athenian.

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  2. ^ Suda s. v. Βάκις
  3. ^ Aelian, Various Histories, 12. 35
  4. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1278