Saburra
Person
Civil War 2.38 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “When these arrangements had been made and his measures approved, he learns from some deserting townsmen that Juba, recalled by a neighbouring war and by quarrels with the people of Leptis, had stayed behind in his kingdom, and that his prefect Saburra, who had been sent on with a moderate force, was approaching Utica. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 2.38
Caesar
When these arrangements had been made and his measures approved, he learns from some deserting townsmen that Juba, recalled by a neighbouring war and by quarrels with the people of Leptis, had stayed behind in his kingdom, and that his prefect Saburra, who had been sent on with a moderate force, was approaching Utica. …
Civil War 2.39
Caesar
… They reply, Saburra. …
Civil War 2.40
Caesar
Juba, having been informed by Saburra of the night battle, sends to his relief two thousand Spanish and Gallic cavalry which he had been wont to keep round his person as a bodyguard, and that part of the infantry on which he most relied, and himself follows more slowly with the rest of his forces and sixty elephants. …
Explicit source relations
- Juba — king and general — Saburra · Dossier · Civil War 2.38
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