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BAGOAS, Holofernes’s Chamberlain, who introduced Judith into his master’s tent, with hopes, that she would gratify his brutal passion. The word Bagoas is used for all sorts of Eunuchs in general1.
Quem penes est Dominam servandi cura Bagoë2. And is often to be met with in the histories of the East. In the Hebrew, Eunuchs are called Bagata, and in the Greek, Bugaioi.
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