Bago'as
3. A general of Tigranes or Mithridates, who together with Mithraus expelled Ariobarzanes from Cappadocia in B. C. 92. (Appian,
App. Mith. 10; comp. Justin,
38.3.)
The name Bagoas frequently occurs in Persian history.
According to Pliny (
Plin. Nat. 13.9), it was the Persian word for an eunuch; and it is sometimes used by Latin writers as synonymous with an eunuch. (Comp.
Quint. Inst. 5.12;
Ov. Am. 2.2. 1.)