ammianus marcellinus, tyrannius rufinus, and zosimus report that bacurius was "king of iberians", but gelasius of caesarea does not call him king, but merely scion of the kings of iberia. bacurius was a "tribunus sagittariorum" at the battle of adrianople with the goths in 378 and then served as "dux palaestinae" and "comes domesticorum" until 394, when he became "magister militum" and commanded a "barbarian" contingent in emperor theodosius i’s (r. 379–395) campaign against the roman usurper eugenius and met his death, according to zosimus, at the battle of the frigidus. according to socrates of constantinople, bacurius had also fought in theodosius's earlier campaign against magnus maximus.