The king of the Numidians, he was a man lucky in everything; when he had been deprived of his ancestral kingdom by the Carthaginians and Syphax, heaven allowed him to recover it and expand it to the greatest extent, from the land of the Mauritians by the ocean as far as the kingdom of the Cyrenaeans inland, to cultivate a great deal of land (when for the most part the Numidians had been eating [grass][1] because the land was uncultivated), to leave behind great treasuries of funds and a large trained army. Of his enemies, [heaven allowed him] to take Syphax prisoner by his own hand and to be the cause of the destruction of Carthage, leaving it utterly weak for the Romans. He was large in body and strong well into old age and up until his death he could mount a horse without an anaboleus.[2] And I will prove his strength especially with this great piece of evidence: while he had many children who were born and died, there were never less than 10 [sc. who survived].[3] He left behind at age ninety a child of four years old. And at such an age and with such a body he died.