Oxyntas

Who is Oxyntas?

Oxyntas was a son of King Jughurta of Numidia, in the Maghreb of North Africa.

He walked with his brother Iampsas in Roman Gaius Marius' triumphal parade of 104 BCE. His father died soon afterward, but Oxyntas was sent to the town of Venusia, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, where he remained until 89 BCE. In the Marsic War, Gaius Papius Mutilus used Oxyntas to inspire defections among the Numidian troops serving under the Roman general, Sextus Julius Caesar. It is not known what happened to Oxyntas after the Marsic War.