Masinissa
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
King Masinissa · the old man
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Numidian king with whom the Carthaginians settled disputes by compromise rather than war.
The Carthaginians in their disputes with Masinissa prefer a settlement of this kind before a decision of war.
Upon this principle of the law of nations Scipio treated with Masinissa, stating that as it was under the auspices of the Roman people, that Syphax was conquered and taken prisoner, himself, his wife, his kingdom, his territory, his towns, and subjects inhabiting those towns, in short, every thing belonging to him became a lawful prize to the Roman people.
Livy in his account of some disputed points between the people of Carthage and Masinissa, says, “The Ambassadors did not change the right of possession.
On the Commonwealth
King of Numidia, aged friend of the Scipio family, who receives the younger Scipio with great affection.
And afterward, received with royal magnificence, we drew out our discourse far into the night, while the old man spoke of nothing but Africanus, and remembered not only all his deeds but even his sayings.
When I had come into Africa, as you know, a tribune of the soldiers to the consul Manius Manilius, attached to the fourth legion, nothing was more to my mind than that I should meet King Masinissa, for just causes most friendly to our family.