(Βιδεῖ, βιδεῖον, βιδεῖον), magistrates at Sparta who inspected the gymnastic exercises. They were either five or six in number, and, as Boeckh has shown, were distinct from the Nomophylaces, who appear to have exercised a higher authority in the state.

BIDPAI, or Pilepat, the Hindu author of the celebrated fables called in India Pancha Tantra, or "the five sections," which has been translated into Tamil, French, Latin, Spanish, and part into English, by Sir Charles Williams and by Sir William Jones. A good account of this work is given in vol. i. of the Royal Asiatic Society's Transactions, by H. H. Wilson, from which it appears that scarcely any book but the Bible has been translated into so many languages.