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The consequence was, that Massinissa immediately seized another Carthaginian district on the western frontier of their territory, the town of Tusca and the great plains near the Bagradas; no course was left to the Carthaginians but to commence another hopeless process at Rome.

The Numidian kings were even allowed to keep the territory which had been wrested from Carthage between the Second and Third Punic Wars. But even the upper waters of the Tusca belonged to Numidia, as did the towns of Vaga, Sicca Veneria and Zama Regia. It is clear that the Romans did not look on their province as an end desirable in itself.

A Tusca amne usque ad Ampsagam fluvium litori Africo praetenditur Numidia, Masinissa Regis nomine maxime clara, nunc Tremisenum regnum eodem porrigitur situ. Gens ipsa Numidae, ante Nomades a Gracis adpellati, a permutandis pabulis, mapalia sua plaustris circumferentes, ut nunc Tattarorum fert mos. Fluviorum celeberrimus est Rubricatus.

The consequence was, that Massinissa immediately seized another Carthaginian district on the western frontier of their territory, the town of Tusca and the great plains near the Bagradas; no course was left to the Carthaginians but to commence another hopeless process at Rome.