Bacchides

(Βακχίδης), an eunuch of Mithridates. After the defeat of the latter by Lucullus, Mithridates in despair sent Bacchides to put his wives and sisters to death, B. C. 71. (Plut. Luc. 18, &c.) Appian (App. Mith. 82) calls the eunuch Bacchus. The Bacchides, who was the governor of Sinope, at the time when this town was besieged by Lucullus, is probably the same as the above. (Strab. xii. p.546.)

A comedy of Plautus (q.v.), and considered by critics as among his best. The original was possibly the Δὶς ἐξαπατῶν of Menander. The Bacchides was performed in B.C. 189. The first scenes were lost between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D.