proper noun
Bocchar
Meaning
- a king of Mauritania at the time of the second Punic war
Bocchar, ăris (in MSS. also Boc-chor, ŏris), m.,
I. a king of Mauritania at the time of the second Punic war, Liv. 29, 30, 1; cf. id. 29, 32, 1.—Hence, poet. for an African, in gen., Juv. 5, 90.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Bocchar (-car) aris, m
a king of Mauretania, L.: Cum Bocchare lavari, a Moor, Iu.