Baptae
Βαπταί
Baptae (Βαπταί), a society founded by Alcibiades in honour of Cotytto, the Thracian Cybele, so called from the purification connected with initiation. Eupolis satirized its licentious revels in his comedy, the Baptae. Cf. Juv. 2.92: Talia secreta coluerunt orgia taeda Cecropiam soliti Baptae lassare Cotytto.
And see Foucart, Des associations religieuses chez les Grecs, pp. 57-60.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.