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JUBA II ., son of the above. On the See also:death of his See also:father in 46 B.C. he was carried to See also:Rome to See also:grace See also:Caesar's See also:triumph. He seems to have received a See also:good See also:education under the care of See also:Augustus who, in 29, after See also:Mark Antony's death, gave him the See also:hand of See also:Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra, and placed him on his father's See also:throne. In 25, however, he transferred him from See also:Numidia to See also:Mauretania, to which was added a See also:part of See also:Gaetulia (see NuMIDIA). Juba seems to have reigned in considerable prosperity, though in A.D. 6 the Gaetulians See also:rose in a revolt of sufficient importance to afford the surname Gaetulicus to See also:Cornelius See also:Lentulus Cossus, the See also:Roman See also:general who helped to suppress it. The date of Juba's death is by no means certain; it has been put between A.D. 19 and 24 (See also:Strabo, xvii. 828; Dio See also:Cassius, li. 15; liii. 26; See also:Plutarch, See also:Ant. 87; Caesar, 55).

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Pliny, who constantly refers to him, is mainly memorable for his' writings. He has been called the See also:African See also:Varro. He wrote many See also:historical and See also:geographical See also:works, of which some seem to have been voluminous and of considerable value on See also:account of the See also:sources to which their author had See also:access: (I)'Pwµai, o) ioropia: (2) 'AooupLaKa: (3) AtluKa: (4) De See also:Arabia sive De expeditione arabica; (5) Physiologa; (6) De See also:Euphorbia herba; (7) IIepi See also:broD: (8) IIepi ypa$lo7c (IIepi f'mypd4mv): (9) Oearpuo horopia: (I0) 'O,uoibrnres: (II) IIepi ¢Bopas Xi Ecus: (12) 'Eatypauua. Fragments and See also:life in See also:Muller, Frag. Hisl. Graec., vol. iii.; see also Sevin, Mem. de l'Acad. See also:des See also:Inscriptions, vol. iv. ; Hullemann, De vita et scriptis Jubae (1846). For the denarii of Juba II. found in 1908 at El Ksar on the See also:coast of See also:Morocco see Dieudonne in Revue Numism. (1908), pp. 350 seq. They are interesting mainly as throwing See also:light on the See also:chronology of the reign.

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