1. Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and Battable by this means.

2. Apuleius was born sometime around the year 124 in the city of Madaura (near modern Mdaourouch in Algeria) in the Roman province of Numidia, during the reign of Hadrian

3. 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and Battable by this means.

4. LUCIUS Apuleius African, an excellent follower of Plato his sect, born in Madaura, a Countrey sometime inhabited by the Romans, and under the jurisdiction of Syphax, scituate and lying on the borders of Numidia and Getulia, whereby he calleth himself half a Numidian and half a Getulian: and Sidonius named him the Platonian Madaurence: his …