Numidians
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the Numidians
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
North African people disputing possession rights with the Carthaginians.
And it was this exception which the Numidians urged against the Carthaginians, alleging that as opportunity offered, sometimes the Kings of the Numidians had appropriated to themselves the disputed possessions, which had always remained in the hands of the stronger party.
In this manner the princes of Pometia were treated by the Romans, the Samnites by Sylla, the Numidians and Vercingetorix by Caesar.
De Pallio
North African people cited regarding distinctive haircutting customs.
whence, among some Numidians, even with their horses long-maned, the barber close to the skin, and the crown of the head alone exempt from the knife?