JUBA I

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JUBA I . (1st

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

B.C.), son and successor of

Hiempsal

HIEMPSAL

, king of Numidia. During the civil wars at Rome he sided with Pompey, partly from gratitude because he had reinstated his father on his throne (Appian, B.C., i. 8o), and partly from enmity to Caesar, who had insulted him at Rome by pulling his

beard

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the
  English
  - ENGLISH
  )
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New
English
- ENGLISH
Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

(

Suet

SUET (M. Eng. sewet, a diminutive of O. Fr. seu, suis, mod. suif, lard, from Lat. sebum, or sebum, tallow, grease, probably allied to sago, soap)

., Caesar, 71). Further, C. Scribonius Curio, Caesar's general in Africa, had openly proposed, 50 B.C., when tribune of the

plebs

PLEBS (from the root seen in Lat. plenus, full; cf. Gr. 7rXit9os)

, that Numidia should be sold to colonists, and the king reduced to a private station. In 49 Juba inflicted on the Caesarean army a crushing defeat, in which Curio was slain (Vell. Pat. ii. 54; Caesar, B.C. ii. 40). Juba's attention was distracted by a counter invasion of his territories by Bocchus the younger and Sittius; but, finding that his

lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

Sabura was able to defend his interests, he rejoined the Pompeians with a large force, and shared the defeat at

Thapsus

THAPSUS

. Fleeing from the field with the Roman general M. Petreius, he wandered about as a fugitive. At length, in despair, Juba killed Petreius, and sought the aid of a slave in despatching himself (46). Juba was a thorough

savage

; brave, treacherous, insolent and cruel. (See NUMIDI.A.)

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