Bocchus

Family: Numidian · Role: king · First appears: Caius Marius

Life events

• Bocchus betrayed Jugurtha and delivered him alive into Sylla’s possession.(Caius Marius · 📍 Africa)
  • With: Jugurtha Sylla
  • “at length he fixed upon his former treachery, and put Jugurtha alive into Sylla's possession.”
• Bocchus surrendered Jugurtha into Lucius Cornelius Sylla’s hands.(Sylla)
  • With: Sylla Jugurtha
  • “Bocchus, having both of them now in his power, was necessitated to betray one or other, and after long debate with himself, at last resolved on his first design, and gave up Jugurtha into the hands of Sylla.”

Caius Marius

• with Jugurtha (interaction) “Bocchus was king of the more distant barbarians, and was father-in-law to Jugurtha”

Sylla

• friends with Sylla “Here, in general, he gained approbation; and more especially, by closing in dexterously with an accidental occasion, made a friend of Bocchus, king of Numidia.”
• enemies with Jugurtha “Bocchus had long hated and dreaded his son-in-law, Jugurtha”
• elder kin: Jugurtha “his son-in-law, Jugurtha”
• protégé: Sylla “Bocchus, who, to please the people of Rome, and gratify Sylla, set up in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus images bearing trophies”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.