His father had taken him on a pilgrimage to the temple of Ammon.

Then he had hunted elephants in the forests of the Garamantes.

Afterwards he had entered the service of Carthage.

He had been appointed tetrarch at the capture of Drepanum.
The Republic owed him four horses, twenty-three medimni of wheat, and a winter's pay.

He feared the gods, and wished to die in his native land.
Spendius spoke to him of his travels, and of the peoples and temples that he had visited.