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Masgaba

a Numidian, son of Masinissa, was sent to Rome by his father as ambassador in B. C. 168. He was received with the utmost distinction, one of the quaestors being sent to meet him at Puteoli, and attend him from thence to Rome. (Liv. 45.13,14.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.