Note 278 — Chapter XIII · THE AFRICAN PROVINCES.

This is attested for the year 70549 B.C. as regards both by Dio, xli. 42 (comp. Suetonius, Caes. 54). In the year 70747 B.C. Bogud lends assistance to the Caesarian governor of Spain (Bell. Alex. 59, 60), and repels an incursion of the younger Gnaeus Pompeius (Bell. Afric. 23). Bocchus, in combination with P. Sittius, in the African war makes a successful diversion against Juba and conquers even the important Cirta (Bell. Afr. 23; Appian, ii. 96; Dio, xliii. 3). The two obtained in return from Caesar the territory of the prince Massinissa (Appian, iv. 54). In the second Spanish war Bogud appears in the army of Caesar (Dio, xliii. 36, 38); the statement that the son of Bocchus had served in the Pompeian army (Dio, l.c.) must be a confusion, probably with Arabio the son of Massinissa, who certainly went to the sons of Pompeius (Appian, l.c.). After Caesar’s death Arabio possessed himself afresh of his dominion (Appian, l.c.), but after his death in the year 71440 B.C. (Dio, xlviii. 22) the Caesarian arrangement must have again taken effect in its full extent. The bestowal on Bocchus and Sittius is probably to be understood to the effect that, in the western part of the former Numidian kingdom otherwise left to Bocchus, the colony of Cirta to be founded by Sittius was to be regarded as an independent Roman town, like Tingi subsequently in the kingdom of Mauretania.