Note 277 — Chapter XIII · THE AFRICAN PROVINCES.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
Cyprian, Quod idola dii non sint, c. 2: Mauri manifeste reges suos colunt nec ullo velamento hoc nomen obtexunt. Tertullian, Apolog. 24: Mauretaniae (dei sunt) reguli sui. C. I. L. viii., 8834: Iemsali L. Percenius L. f. Stel. Rogatus v. (s. l. a.), found at Thubusuptu in the region of Sitifis, which place may well have belonged to the Numidian kingdom of Hiempsal. Thus the inscription also of Thubursicum (C. I. L. viii. n. 7* comp. Eph. epigr. v. p. 651, n. 1478) must have rather been badly copied than falsified. Still, in the year 70, it was alleged that in Mauretania a pretender to the throne had ascribed to himself the name of Juba (Tacitus, Hist. ii. 58).