Adherbal

• a Numidian prince, the son of Micipsa, slain by Jugurtha, Sall. J. 5 al.

(Ἀτάρβας).

1. A Carthaginian commander in the first Punic war, who was placed over Drepana, and completely defeated the Roman consul P. Claudius in a sea-fight off Drepana, B. C. 249. (Plb. 1.49_52; Diod. Ecl. xxiv.)

2. A Carthaginian commander under Mago in the second Punic war, who was defeated in a seafight off Carteia, in Spain, by C. Laelius in B. C. 206. (Liv. 28.30.)

3. The son of Micipsa, and grandson of Masinissa, had the kingdom of Numidia left to him by his father in conjunction with his brother Hiempsal and Jugurtha, B. C. 118. After the murder of his brother by Jugurtha, Adherbal fled to Rome and was restored to his share of the kingdom by the Romans in B. C. 117. But Adherbal was again stripped of his dominions by Jugurtha and besieged in Cirta, where he was treacherously killed by Jugurtha in B. C. 112, although he had placed himself under the protection of the Romans. (Sal. Jug. 5, 13, 14, 24, 25, 26; Liv. Ep. 63; Diod. Exc. xxxiv. p. 605. ed. Wess.)

See Iugurtha.