Baucis, ĭdis, f., = Βαῦκις.
- I. The wife of Philemon, in Phrygia. She, with her husband, entertained, in a very hospitable manner, Jupiter and Mercury, who came to them in the form of men; in return for which they were changed to two sacred trees before their hut, which became a temple, Ov. M. 8, 631 sq.
- II. Meton., an old woman, Pers. 4, 21.