McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Ascodruglitm (or Ascodrobes)

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Ascodruglitm (or Ascodrobes)


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a sect at Ancyra, in Galatia, described by Philastrius (Haer. 75) as setting and covering an inflated wine - skin in their churches, and dancing wildly round it in. Bacchanalian fashion. He has also been understood as saying that the Ascodrugitae grounded their practice on Mat_9:17; but he alone is responsible for the reference.