Numidian–Roman WarsNumidia / Rome · 150–46 BCE“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”Numidia — the Berber kingdom of the great horsemen, whose cavalry had won battles for Hannibal and then against him — spent a century as Rome's ally, which proved merely the patient form of being Rome's possession. Each succession invited a Roman opinion; each Roman civil war demanded a Numidian side.