Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), B, Bantia, Bassăra, Bassăris

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（βασσάρα, κασσάρα). Originally a name given to the fox, and probably Egyptian in its origin, since in the hieroglyphs the fox is called wasar (Coptic basor); and Egyptian priests are found represented as wearing what appear to be fox-skins. (See Lepsius, Denkmäler, ii. 112, 128.) In Lydia and Thrace the word is applied to the dress of the Bacchanals (Bassarides), which is described as variegated and reaching to the feet. The Lydian Dionysus is hence styled Bassareus, but there is no genuine Hellenic conception of a fox in connection with Dionysus. See Roscher, Ausführl. Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie, s. h. v.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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