BACUA´TAE
BACUA´TAE (
Βακουᾶται), a people of Mauretania Tingitana, about the neighbourhood of Fez. (
Ptol. 4.1.10.)
There is an extant Latin inscription to the memory of a youth, son of Aurelius Canartha, chief of the tribes of the Baquates (
principis Gentiumn Baquatiua, Orelli, No. 525.)
In the
Chronicon Paschale (vol. i. pp. 46, 57) the name occurs in the form of
Μακουακοί. In the same list as the Bacuatae, but at the extreme S., Ptolemy places the
Οὐακαυᾶται, probably only another form of the name.
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