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Headword: Βάπτουσι Adler number: beta,98 Translated headword: They dip Vetting Status: low Translation:
They wash. Aristophanes [writes]: "First of all they do not dip the wool in hot [water] in accordance with the ancient custom."[1] Meaning they make no innovation.
[1] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 215-6 (web address 1 below), which has the asseverative particle men for the lexicon's negative mêt' ["not"]. The sentence which follows in the gloss is from the scholia to the passage.
