place
Mauretania
also: Mauretania
Kingdom of northwest Africa where the adventurer Sittius operated; named by Catiline among his sources of support.
Reading notes
- The Conspiracy of Catiline §21 Mauretania
Kingdom of northwest Africa where the adventurer Sittius held a private army; named by Catiline as foreign support.
- The Jugurthine War §16 Mauretania
The kingdom west of Numidia (roughly modern Morocco/western Algeria), ruled by Bocchus; the richer, western share of Numidia adjoined it and fell to Jugurtha.