(2 syl.). Priests of the goddess Cotytto, whose midnight orgies
were so obscene that they disgusted even Cotytto, the goddess of
obscenity. They received their name from the Greek verb bapto,
to wash, because they bathed themselves in the most effeminate manner.
(Juvenal, ii. 91.)
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