"Bacchides (Greek: \u0392\u03B1\u03BA\u03C7\u03AF\u03B4\u03B7\u03C2) was a Hellenistic Greek general; friend of the Syrian-Greek king Demetrius; and \"ruler in the country beyond the river\"\u2014Euphrates. Demetrius sent him in 161 BCE to Judea with a large army, in order to invest the recreant Alcimus with the office of high priest (I Macc. vii. 8, 9). The peaceable Assideans credulously expected friendship from him; but, contrary to oath and covenant, he cruelly slew sixty of them (ib. vii. 16)."@en .