(from ἀσκός, 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 blowed up; saying, They were those new bottles filled with new wine, whereof our Saviour makes mention, Matth. ix. 17. —They are sometimes also called Afrodigita.