ASCITÆ, (from ἄσκη, a bag or bottle), in antiquity a sect or branch of Montanists, who appeared in the second century. They were so called, because they introduced a kind of Bacchanals into their assemblies, who danced round a bag or skin blown up; saying, They were those new bottles filled with new wine, whereof our Saviour makes mention, Matth. ix. 17.—They are sometimes also called Ascodrogites.