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20. Camps 1960,279-95; 1980,220-24.
21. Camps 1960,283-84; RIL, no. 2 (temple of Massinissa et Dougga);
J. G. Fevrier 1951,139-50 (dedication of shrine to Micipsa at Cherchel).
22. Corippus, loh, III, 77-155.
23. loh, III, 158-70.
24. loh, II, 109-12.
25. loh, V, 22-31.
26. loh, V, 495-502.
27. Ioh, VI, 145-187; 556; VII, 515-20; VIII, 252.
28. Gellner 1969,26-28; Camps 1980,309-10.
29. Gellner 1969,26.
30. Gellner 1969,4; Duclos 1973,217-229.
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1. Herodotus, IV, 183; Law 1967,181-83; Graziosi 1969,3-20.
2. Law 1967,181.
3. Silius Italicus I, 215-19, described Numidian cavalry who did not use
a bridle, but guided their horses with a switch and were famed for
their guile. The same was evidently still true in the fourth century
A. D.. Ammianus Marcellinus, XXIX, 5, described the Moorish cavalry as
hostis discursator et repentinus, insidisque potius clandestinus
quarr praeliorum stabilitate confidens.
4. Livy, XLV, 13,13-14, on Numidian cavalry serving with Rome in Macedonia;
XXIX, 34,4-7, on Carthaginian recruitment of Numidian cavalry as the
best in Africa; XXXV, 11,4-13 is a detailed account of a notable
victory for 800 Numidian horsemen in Spain in 193 B. C. Lucan, IV,
715-87, described Curio's defeat by Juba in an ambush that underline the
value of his light armed cavalry and skirmishers.
5. Livy, XXIV, 48,3-8.
6. Lucan, IV, 677-83,
"Autotoles, Numidaeque vagi semperque paratus
Inculto Gaetulus equo, tum concolor Indo
Maurus, inops Nasamon, mixti Garamantae perusto
Marmaridae volucres, aequaturusque sagittas
Medorum, tremulum cum torsit missile Mazax
Et gens quae nudo residens Massylia dorso
Ora levi flectit frenorum nescia virga. "
7. Silius Italicus, II, 56-57. The passage is an interesting one, as the
tribal contingents were led by Asbyte, daughter of Hiarbas, the
Garamantian, who was reputed to be the son of Ammon and whose power
extended over the other tribes. Some of Asbyte's followers are
depicted riding in two-horse chariots, others were on horseback (11,82-83).
8. Silius Italicus, V, 185; IX, 220-223; note also XV. 672f, concerning
Nabis, an Armonian chieftain fighting on horseback.
9. Strabo, XVII, 3,19. Compare horse-breeding in more recent times,
Daumas, 1850/1968, passim.
10. Silius Italicus, III, 287-93.
11. Caesar, BAf, XIV, described an engagement with Juba. The interaction
between cavalry and infantry was designed to break-up the Roman battle
order and at the same time prevent the Romans fully engaging battle.
12. Herodotus, VII, 71; Strabo, XVII, 3,7; Caesar, BAf, XIV; Silius
Italicus, IV, 445 (tells Garamantica pubes); III, 275-77 (on the Macae
who used a barbed spear, the cateia); Diodorus Siculus, III, 49,5.
13. Bates 1914,144.
14. Diodorus Siculus, III, 49,5.
15. Bates 1914,146.
16. Daumas 1850/1971,25-43.