Crossword-Solution: BACIS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

TRYGAEUS Oh, you trouble-maker! may your lungs get as hot as this meat! HIEROCLES Nay, nay! if only the Nymphs had not fooled Bacis, and Bacis mortal men; and if the Nymphs had not tricked Bacis a second time...(1) f(1) Emphatic pathos, incomprehensible even to the diviner himself; this is a satire on the obscure style of the oracles.

PROPHET "But when the wolves and the white crows shall dwell together between Corinth and Sicyon..." PISTHETAERUS But how do the Corinthians concern me? PROPHET 'Tis the regions of the air that Bacis indicated in this manner.

Sed tamen necesse fuit esse aliquid extremum et, tamquam in arborum bacis terraeque fructibus, maturitate tempestiva quasi vietum et caducum, quod ferundum est molliter sapienti.

Who can wonder that foreign nations ridiculed a religion of this kind--one that "turned the glory" of the Eternal Godhead "into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay"? The Egyptians had also a further god incarnate, who was not shut up out of sight like the Apis and Mnevis and Bacis bulls and the Athor cow, but was continually before their eyes, the centre of the nation's life, the prime object of attention.