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At the time of the Jugurthine war, most of the Punic towns, and the territories which Carthage had lately possessed,Had lately possessed] Novissimè habuerant. In the interval between the second and third Punic wars. were under the government of Roman prætors; a great part of the Getulians, and Numidia as far as the river Mulucha, were subject to Jugurtha; while the whole of the Moors were governed by Bocchus, a king who knew nothing of the Romans but their name, and who, before this period, was as little known to us, either in war or peace. Of Africa and its inhabitants I have now said all that my narrative requires.