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BAKIS (i.e. ." speaker," from f3ai'w)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAKIS (i.e. ." See also:speaker," from f3ai'w)  , a See also:general name for the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in See also:Greece from the 8th to the 6th See also:century B.C . Suidas mentions three: a Boeotian, an' Arcadian and an Athenian . The first, who was the most famous, was said to have been inspired by the See also:nymphs of the Corycian See also:cave . His oracles, of which specie mens are extant in See also:Herodotus and See also:Pausanias, were written in See also:hexameter See also:verse, and were considered to have been strikingly fulfilled . The Arcadian was said to have cured the See also:women of See also:Sparta of a See also:fit of madness . Many of the oracles which were current under his name have been attributed to See also:Onomacritus . Herodotus viii . 20, 77, ix . 43; Pausanias iv . 27, ix . 17, X . 12; Schol .

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Pax, 1070; see See also:Gottling, Opuscula Academism (1869) . BAKbCZ, TAMAS, See also:CARDINAL (1442-1521), Hungarian ecclesiastic and statesman, was the son of a wagoner, adopted by his See also:uncle, who trained him for the priesthood and whom he succeeded as See also:rector of Tetel (148o) . Shortly afterwards he became one of the secretaries of See also:King See also:Matthias I., who made him See also:bishop of See also:Gyor and a member of the royal See also:council (1490) . Under See also:Wladislaus II . (1490-1516) he became successively bishop of See also:Eger, the richest of the Hungarian See also:sees, See also:archbishop of See also:Esztergom (1497),. cardinal (15oo), and titular See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople (1510) . From 1490 to his See also:death in 1521 he was the leading statesman of See also:Hungary and mainly responsible for her See also:foreign policy . It was solely through his efforts that Hungary did not accede to the leage a of See also:Cambrai, was consistently friendly with See also:Venice, and formes, a See also:family compact with the Habsburgs . He was also the only Magyar See also:prelate who seriously aspired to the papal See also:throne . In 1513, on the death of See also:Julius II., he went to See also:Rome for the See also:express purpose of bringing about his own See also:election as See also:pope . He was received with more than princely pomp, and all but succeeded in his See also:design, thanks to his extraordinary adroitness and the command of an almost unlimited bribing-fund . But Venice and the See also:emperor played him false, and he failed .

He returned to Hungary as papal See also:

legate, bringing with him the See also:bull of See also:Leo X. proclaiming a fresh crusade against the See also:Turks . But the crusade degenerated into a See also:jacquerie which ravaged the whole See also:kingdom, and much discredited Bak6cz . He lost some of his See also:influence at first after the death of Wladislaus, but continued to be the, guiding spirit at See also:court, till See also:age and infirmity confined him almost entirely to his See also:house in the last three years of his See also:life . Bak6cz was a See also:man of See also:great ability but of no moral principle whatever . His whole life was a See also:tissue of treachery . He was false to his benefactor Matthias, false to Matthias's son Janos See also:Corvinus (q.v.), whom he chicaned out of the throne, and false to his See also:accomplice in that transaction, See also:Queen See also:Beatrice . His rapacity disgusted even an age in which every one could be bought and sold . His See also:attempt to incorporate the wealthy See also:diocese of Transylvania with his, own primatial See also:province was one of the See also:principal causes of the spread of the See also:Reformation in Hungary . He See also:left a See also:fortune of many millions . His one re-deeming feature was a love of See also:art; his own See also:cathedral was a veritable See also:Pantheon . See Vilmos Fraknoi, See also:Tamils Bakocz (Hung.) (See also:Budapest, 1889) . (R .

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