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Dadūchus

δᾳδοῦχος). A torch-bearer. A name applied to the person who, on the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, led the initiated, torch in hand, to the temple of Demeter, in memory of her wanderings with a lighted torch in search of Persephoné (q.v.). See Eleusinia; Mysteria.

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