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Bocchus II was a king of
Mauretania in the 1st
century BC. He was the son of Mastanesosus, who died in 49 BC, upon
which Bocchus inherited the throne....
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Bocchus,
often referred to as
Bocchus I for clarity, was king of
Mauretania from c. 111 – 80 BCE. He was father-in-law to the
Numidian king Jugurtha,...
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Bocchus is the name of 2
kings of Mauretania.
Bocchus I
Bocchus II This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated with the
title Bocchus. If an internal...
- marriage,
Bocchus I of
Mauretania both his ally and father-in-law, an age-old
diplomatic move. At the
outset of the
major war (112–105 BC),
Bocchus stood...
- in
securing victory,
Bocchus felt
forced by
Roman arms to
betray Jugurtha.
After the
Senate approved negotiations with
Bocchus, it
delegated the talks...
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Lucius Cornelius Bocchus was a
Lusitanian from
Roman Hispania who
wrote about natural history.
Ancient authors mention his writings,
which are otherwise...
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doubt that a king
named Sosus had
ruled Mauretania after Bocchus I and
before Bogud and
Bocchus II, as had
originally been
conjectured by
American archaeologist...
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combined forces of
Jugurtha and
Bocchus near
Sitifis after a three-day
battle and
returned to Cirta.
Bocchus sought peace and, at the
urging of Marius’s...
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Bogud supported Mark Antony,
while Bocchus stood by
Octavian (later the
emperor Augustus).
About 38 BC,
Bocchus seized Bogud's
territory while Bogud...
- the battlefield,
threw his
forces against Bocchus. The
Mauritanians broke under Sulla's ****ault and
Bocchus fled the battlefield. Meanwhile,
Marius had...
