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  • noun Plural form of Numidian.

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Examples

  • By this Means the Numidians began to be in divers Divisions, and many Heart − burnings arose amongst them, that the Queen was nonplus'd what to do.

    Exilius 2008

  • But as all the Glories of this World are passant, and all its Felicities transitory, so it was in these Delights; as they had their Beginning, so their Period approach'd, that the young King and his Numidians must return; which was a sensible Affliction to the Princess, not only the parting with her Brother, but fearing least, in Time, Prince Boccus, and the

    Exilius 2008

  • Numidia; who were very ready to comply with me in an Enterprize so just and honourable, as the saving the Life of the Princess, and divers noble Numidians, who were in Danger.

    Exilius 2008

  • Caesar was the nephew by marriage of Gaius Marius, who was seven times Consul of Rome (the Republic's highest elected office), victorious commander against the Numidians, and the massive Germanic invasion of Italy and Gaul in the late Second Century B.C.E..

    The Caesar Factor 2007

  • Along the way we meet a variety of major historical figures on both sides of the conflict, as well as characters representing the vast array of other ethnicities who played a part in the war: Iberians and Gauls, Numidians and Libyans, Macedonians and Moors.

    The Pride of Carthage: Summary and book reviews of The Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham. 2005

  • Durham vividly captures the frenzy of ancient warfare -- battle-maddened pachyderms, hails of javelins and arrows, ordered ranks of Roman light infantry crumbling before Hannibal's mercenary army of 'copper-skinned' Libyans, tattooed and dreadlocked Numidians and blond, blood-drinking Gauls.

    The Pride of Carthage: Summary and book reviews of The Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham. 2005

  • When I painted a unit of Numidians as Caesarean Roman allies I wanted a kind of dusty, Mediterranean look for the bases but I added far too much grass - I find it's easy for the grass/bushes etc to dominate bases, particularly on single figures.

    The desert.. legatus hedlius 2007

  • But after a while he grew weary of listening to the same old military anecdotes—usually illustrated by the maneuvering of plates and decanters around the dinner table—of how the young general had outwitted three Marian armies at Auximum, or killed seventeen thousand Numidians in a single afternoon at the age of twenty-four, or finally defeated the Spanish rebels near Valencia.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • But after a while he grew weary of listening to the same old military anecdotes—usually illustrated by the maneuvering of plates and decanters around the dinner table—of how the young general had outwitted three Marian armies at Auximum, or killed seventeen thousand Numidians in a single afternoon at the age of twenty-four, or finally defeated the Spanish rebels near Valencia.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Numidians were sorting river stones that would be fired from slings or catapults.

    Hadrian's Wall.html Dietrich, William 2004

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