Masintha

Family: Numidian · Role: noble youth and client · First appears: Julius Caesar 71

Life events

• Julius Caesar defended Masintha’s cause against Hiempsal.(Julius Caesar 71)
  • With: Julius Caesar Hiempsal
  • “He defended the cause of a noble youth, Masintha, against king Hiempsal, so strenuously”
• Masintha was declared tributary to Hiempsal.(Julius Caesar 71)
  • With: Hiempsal
  • “upon Masintha’s being declared tributary to Hiempsal”
• Julius Caesar rescued Masintha by force from his opponents.(Julius Caesar 71)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “he immediately rescued him by force”
• Julius Caesar concealed Masintha in his house.(Julius Caesar 71 · 📍 his house)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “kept him concealed in his house a long time”
• Julius Caesar took Masintha away in his litter when he went to Spain.(Julius Caesar 71 · 📍 Spain)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “when, at the expiration of his praetorship, he went to Spain, he took him away in his litter”

Julius Caesar 71

• patron: Julius Caesar (Caesar is described as acting in the service of his client Masintha and defending, rescuing, concealing, and escorting him.) “In the service of his clients, while yet a young man, he evinced great zeal and fidelity. He defended the cause of a noble youth, Masintha, against king Hiempsal, so strenuously, that in a scuffle which took place upon the occasion, he seized by the beard the son of king Juba; and upon Masintha’s being declared tributary to Hiempsal, while the friends of the adverse party were violently carrying him off, he immediately rescued him by force, kept him concealed in his house a long time, and when, at the expiration of his praetorship, he went to Spain, he took him away in his litter, in the midst of his lictors bearing the fasces, and others who had come to attend and take leave of him.”
• enemies with Hiempsal (The text places Masintha and Hiempsal on opposing sides in a violent dispute.) “He defended the cause of a noble youth, Masintha, against king Hiempsal, so strenuously, that in a scuffle which took place upon the occasion, he seized by the beard the son of king Juba; and upon Masintha’s being declared tributary to Hiempsal, while the friends of the adverse party were violently carrying him off, he immediately rescued him by force, kept him concealed in his house a long time, and when, at the expiration of his praetorship, he went to Spain, he took him away in his litter, in the midst of his lictors bearing the fasces, and others who had come to attend and take leave of him.”
• with Hiempsal (Masintha was made tributary to Hiempsal.) “upon Masintha’s being declared tributary to Hiempsal”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.