JUBA I  . (1st century B.C.), son and successor of Hiempsal, king of Numidia . During the civil wars at Rome he sided with Pompey, partly from gratitude because he had reinstated his father on his throne (Appian, B.C., i . 8o), and partly from enmity to Caesar, who had insulted him at Rome by pulling his beard (Suet., Caesar, 71) . Further, C . Scribonius Curio, Caesar's general in Africa, had openly proposed, 50 B.C., when tribune of the plebs, that Numidia should be sold to colonists, and the king reduced to a private station . In 49 Juba inflicted on the Caesarean army a crushing defeat, in which Curio was slain (Vell . Pat. ii . 54; Caesar, B.C. ii . 40) . Juba's attention was distracted by a counter invasion of his territories by Bocchus the younger and Sittius; but, finding that his lieutenant Sabura was able to defend his interests, he rejoined the Pompeians with a large force, and shared the defeat at Thapsus . Fleeing from the field with the Roman general M .

Petreius, he wandered about as a fugitive . At length, in despair, Juba killed Petreius, and sought the aid of a slave in despatching himself (46) . Juba was a thorough

savage; brave, treacherous, insolent and cruel .