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Bocho

from The Sola Busca Tarot, c. 1491

A man with a spear and a painted shield, a small lamb on the shield, and a tall plumed helmet. Bocchus, king of Mauretania, who betrayed Jugurtha to Sulla; his name turns up in the same corner of Roman history as Marius and Catulus.

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