The lands that had been originally assigned to the Roman people by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, but were subsequently acquired by Numidia as part of the treaty with Rome, are expressly exempted from sale when the tribune Publius Servilius Rullus introduced his agrarian law in 63 BCE.

This had roused the indignation of Cicero (De lege agraria, i.4, ii.22).

From Suetonius (Caesar, 71) it is evident that Hiempsal II, king of Numidia, was alive in 62 BCE.

Hiempsal had in 81 BCE been driven from his throne; Pompey had been sent to Africa by Sulla soon afterwards to reinstate Hiempsal as king in Numidia.

Because of this, Hiempsal and later his son Juba, who succeeds Hiempsal in 60 BCE, had become Pompey’s allies.

According to Sallust (Jugurtha, 17), Hiempsal was the author of an historical work in the Punic language.