Bocchus, a King of Mauritania and Gaetulia, whose name occurs frequently in the most infamous transactions of the Jugurthine war. An obsequious ally of the Romans, and a treacherous friend to his Numidian neighbours, this unprincipled time-server, after various intrigues and manoeuvres, with both the conflicting parties, basely delivered up to Sulla, then a quaestor of Marius, King Jugurtha, who had sought an asylum in the territories of Bocchus, after an unsuccessful contest with the Roman legions, 106 BC. There are denarii of Faustus Cornelius Sulla, son of the dictator, allusive to this historical event. See Cornelia gens; also see FAVSTVS - FELIX.