Numidia

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Custom
Sallust makes sure to note that the three Numidian princes follow the customary royal burial practices when they bury their father before the country is split by the impious acts by Jugurtha.

Numidians often consume milk and wild animals so their dependence on water is not as great. They don’t use salt. Food is only for holding off hunger not as a display of luxury or a source of licentiousness.

Food
Numidians often consume milk and wild animals so their dependence on water is not as great. They don’t use salt. Food is only for holding off hunger not as a display of luxury or a source of licentiousness. Numidians are more pastoral than agricultural and don’t have anything growing in the height of summer.

Jugurtha
Description of the appearance and military history of the king Jugurtha. He was an upright, smart, young man that caused the king prior to Jugurtha to want to get rid of him. That is why Jugurtha was sent to Spain. However, the Roman commander Publius Scipio saw the good character of Jugurtha and put in such situations that caused Jugurtha to gain the trust and alliances of many Romans. This caused Jugurtha to be adopted by the king and made an equal heir to the sons. However, as soon as he was king with the sons he became angry that they would try to remove him and schemed of ways to get rid of them deceitfully. He bribed a lector to bring the head of Hiempsal to him when the princes were setting out to divide the treasury and lands between themselves. This caused a split in Numidia as it was such a great crime that lead to great fear in the people. Ignored the advice of the general to cultivate the friendship of Rome as a whole instead of a few individuals and bribed anybody and everybody in Rome he could to avoid being punished for his impious act. Shown in direct contrast to the leaders of Rome.

Location and lifestyle
Numidians traced back to Persian settlements. They are from land nearest Carthage. Control nearly all of the lower part of Africa and there was a lot of mixing of people and all took the name Numidians. Numidian peasant dwellings to this day are still constructed like the hulls of ships i.e. oblong with curved sides.