His brothers-in-law were Hasdrubal the Fair and the Numidian king Naravas.

However, the Numidian king of the relevant area was now a son-in-law of Hamilcar and had supported Carthage during a crucial moment in the Mercenary War.

While little progress was made in the Iberian theatre, the Scipios were able to negotiate a new front in Africa by allying themselves with Syphax, a powerful Numidian king in North Africa.

** Syphax, Numidian king allied with the Carthaginians during the Second Punic War against Rome

* Scipio Aemilianus is sent by the Roman general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, to Numidia to obtain some elephants from the Numidian king Masinissa, the friend of his grandfather Scipio Africanus.

* Having lost his alliance with the Numidian chief Masinissa, the Carthaginian general, Hasdrubal Gisco, finds a new ally in the Numidian king Syphax, who marries Sophonisba, Hasdrubal's daughter, whom until his defection to Rome has been betrothed to Masinissa.

The Numidian king, Syphax, and the Carthaginian leader, Hasdrubal Gisco, manage to escape separately.

* Syphax, Numidian king allied with the Carthaginians during the Second Punic War against Rome

* Hasdrubal Gisco retreats to the coast and then crosses to North Africa, where he gives his daughter in marriage to Syphax, king of the Numidian Masaesyli tribe, to formalize their military alliance.

* Syphax, king of the western Numidian tribe, the Masaesyli, concludes an alliance with the Romans and they send military advisers to help Syphax train his soldiers.

Under Marius, the Roman forces followed a very similar plan as under Metellus and ultimately defeated the Numidians in 106 BC, thanks in large part to Sulla's initiative in capturing the Numidian king.

Ironically, this same Opimius then later committed fraud and accepted bribes from the Numidian king Jugurtha and after convicted spent his days in disgrace.

The situation was favorable enough, as Hasdrubal managed to cross over to Africa with an army to crush the rebellion of Syphax, king on Numidian tribes in 212 BC, without the Scipios causing any disruptions in Hispania.

Later it was renamed Cirta, by the Numidian king Syphax, who turned it into his capital.

The remaining territory was left in the domain of the Numidian client king Massinissa.

The Numidian king Jugurtha made the town his governing headquarters.

During the Second Punic War, Syphax was the king of the largest Numidian kingdom, the Masaesyli.

Upon his arrival, he drove out Metellus Pius who fled to Numidia ; pursued here, he and the Numidian king Hiempsal II were forced to flee onwards to Mauretania.

The last Numidian king Juba II and his wife, the Greek Ptolemaic princess Cleopatra Selene II were forced to flee the other part of Numidian kingdom because the local population disapproved of their king being too Romanized, which caused civil unrest between 26 BC-20 BC.

After the battle, Hasdrubal Gisco departed for Africa to visit the powerful Numidian king Syphax, in whose court he was met by Scipio, who was also courting the favor of the Numidians.

The Numidian King Massinissa is visiting Carthage and Hasdrubal, brother of Hannibal, promises him his beautiful daughter Sophonisba, in marriage.

" In 150 BC an appeal was made to Scipio by the Carthaginians to act as mediator between them and the Numidian prince Massinissa who, supported by a party at Rome, was incessantly encroaching on Carthaginian territory.

With its defeat of Carthage in the Punic Wars --- greatly helped by the defection of the Carthaginian's eastern Numidian Massylii client-allies under their King Massinissa to the Roman cause in 206 BC --- Rome took over many of these ports, and ultimately it took control of the entire Maghreb north of the Atlas Mountains.

When Gala died in 206 BC, his sons Massinissa and Oezalces quarreled about the inheritance, and Syphax was able to conquer considerable parts of the eastern Numidian kingdom.

In 151 BC Numidia launched another border raid on Carthaginian soil, besieging the Punic town of Oroscopa, and Carthage launched a large military expedition ( 25, 000 soldiers ) to repel the Numidian invaders.

While on a reconnaissance mission with his colleague, T. Quinctius Crispinus and a small band of 220 horsemen, the group was ambushed and nearly completely slaughtered by a much larger Carthaginian force of Numidian horsemen.

Masinissa, then 17 years old, led an army of Numidian troops and Carthaginian auxiliaries against Syphax's army and won a decisive victory.

After his victory over Syphax, Masinissa commanded his skilled Numidian cavalry against the Romans in Spain, where he was involved in the Carthaginian victories of Castulo and Ilorca ( both 211 ).

Seizing this opportunity, Masinissa led his Numidian cavalry and charged at the Carthaginian left wing, also composed of Numidian cavalry, and was unknowingly lured off the field.

At the instigation of the Romans, Syphax, one of the kings of the Numidian tribes, attacked Carthaginian territories in Africa in 213 / 212 BC.

The purpose of this expedition was to detach two Carthaginian allies-the Berber ( or Massaesylian ) prince Syphax and the Numidian prince Massinissa-from their commitments, both believed to be on the verge of revolt against their Carthaginian overlords.

In 206, with fresh reinforcements, Mago and Hasdrubal Gisgo — supported by Masinissa's Numidian cavalry — met Scipio at the Battle of Ilipa, where Carthage's power in Spain was finally broken in arguably Scipio Africanus's most brilliant victory.

In fact he arrived at the Numidian harbor, at exactly the same time as Hasdrubal ( who had fled from Spain ) anchored there on his way back to Carthage.

The aid of Masinissa, a Numidian prince, was invaluable during this episode, and he crossed over to Iberia with Hasdrubal after the African expedition ended with 3, 000 Numidian cavalry.

The onslaught of Hannibal's cavalry was irresistible, and Maharbal, Hannibal's chief cavalry commander, who led the mobile Numidian cavalry on the right, shattered the Roman cavalry opposing them.

In the Battle of Zama ( 202 ) ( near modern-day Maktar, Tunisia ) Masinissa commanded the cavalry ( 6, 000 Numidian and 3, 000 Roman ) on Scipio's right wing, Scipio delayed the engagement for long enough to allow for Masinissa to join him.

The stronger right wing was composed of the Numidian cavalry and commanded by Masinissa while the left wing was composed of the Italian cavalry under the command of Laelius.

* 238 – Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed.

It is true that some specialist units in the auxilia, such as Syrian archers and Numidian cavalry wore light armour ( or none ).

It is the best-deciphered variant, due to the discovery of several Numidian bilingual inscriptions in Libyan and Punic ( notably at Dougga in Tunisia.

as the burial-place of the Numidian kings, and is situated southwest of Constantine.

It derives from the small Numidian Kingdom of Maure of the 3rd century BCE in what is now northern central and western part of Algeria and a part of northern Morocco.

It is divided by four columns of Corinthian order made of Numidian yellow marble ( giallo antico ), one of which has been transferred into the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano and was replaced by a white marble column.

Sagramor is a Hungarian prince in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, but is depicted here as a Numidian veteran of the old Roman Army who joined Arthur's service after the collapse of the Empire.

The main plot of the novel is generally concerned with the rise of Marius, his marriage to Julia, his success in replacing Metellus as general in charge of the Numidian theatre of war, his defeat of King Jugurtha of Numidia, his re-organization of the Roman Army system, his unprecedented consecutive consulships, his defeat of a massive invasion of German tribes ( the Teutones, the Cimbri and the Marcomanni / Cherusci / Tigurini ), and the details of his relationship with his subordinate and close friend Sulla.