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Ascitans
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(or Ascitae; from avrcos, the Greek for a wine-skin), a peculiar sect of 2nd-century Christians (Montanists), who introduced the practice of dancing round a wine-skin at their meetings.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ascitans'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/ascitans.html. 1910.