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BACCHIDES.—Governor of Mesopotamia under Demetrius Soter; sent to establish Alcimus (wh. see) in the priesthood; defeated Jonathan the Maccabee, and at a later period besieged him in the fortress of Bethbasi; was finally compelled to entertain proposals for peace (1Ma_7:3-20; 1Ma_9:1-72; 1Ma_10:12; Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant. XII. i.–XIII. i.).