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/nuˈmɪdiə/
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NOUN
- an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria
How To Use Numidia In A Sentence
- Chosen by C. Marius as his quaestor he distinguished himself in the Numidian War.
- This Tipasa (which must not be confounded with another in Numidia) was a town of some note since Vespasian endowed it with the right of Latium.] 122 Optatus Milevitanus de The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The region," said Lucien, "was first known as Numidia and Mauritania; The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
- Thus the novel follows the Carthaginian foot soldier, Imco Vaca, and also tells of a Numidian horseman, Tusselo, and of a Greek scribe, Silenus, and of the camp follower, David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
- But the Romans had every legionary trained in the use of the javelin pilum and and lots of archer auxiliary mostly from the east - light mounted archers with composite or recurve bows from Numidia, Osrhoene and Parthia, foot archers from Syria, even specialised slingers from the Balearic isles. Bowmen in medieval Wales
- Itaque non uti antea cum praedatoria manu, sed magno exercitu comparato bellum gerere coepit et aperte totius Numidiae imperium petere. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
- He placed the Clinabarians outside the infantry next to the velites, and the Numidians beyond; when day appeared, both sides were thus in line face to face. Salammbo
- [406] It was only the language of the inhabitants of Leptis that had experienced a change, in consequence of their matrimonial connections with the Numidians, otherwise they had for the most part preserved their Sidonian, that is, Phoenician, laws and habits, being separated from the inhabited part of Numidia by extensive deserts, which was also the reason of the Numidian king's seldom residing at Leptis, although the town belonged to his kingdom. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
- Terentia, the divorced wife of Cicero; and there subsisted between the two husbands a kind of rivalship from that cause, to which was probably added some degree of animosity, on account of their difference in politics, during the late dictatorship of Julius Caesar, by whom Sallust was restored to the senate, whence he had been expelled for licentiousness, and was appointed governor of Numidia. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
- Numidia, which is your own property, to sink into ruin [57] through villainy and the slaughter of our family. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War