King Bocchoris

Family: Egyptian · Role: king · First appears: Histories V.1-4

Life events

• King Bocchoris was instructed to expel plague sufferers from Egypt.(Histories V.1-4 · 📍 Egypt)
  • “King Bocchoris, on approaching the oracle of Ammon and inquiring for a remedy, was told to purge his kingdom of the plague and to transport all who suffered from it into some other country”

Histories V.1-4

• with Moses (Bocchoris's order resulted in Moses being among the transported outcasts.) “King Bocchoris, on approaching the oracle of Ammon and inquiring for a remedy, was told to purge his kingdom of the plague and to transport all who suffered from it into some other country, for they had earned the disfavour of Heaven. A motley crowd was thus collected and abandoned in the desert. While all the other outcasts lay idly lamenting, one of them, named Moses, advised them not to look for help to gods or men”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.