(), a Numidian, was the second son of
Masinissa, and brother to Micipsa and Mastanabal. In B. C. 172 he
was sent by his father to Rome, and answered the Carthaginian ambassador's complaints of
Masinissa, and his encroachments. The defence must have seemed unsatisfactory enough, had not
the Roman senate been indisposed to scrutinise it strictly. In the next year we find him again
at Rome, stating to the senate what forces Masinissa was ready to furnish for the war with
Macedonia, and warning them against the alleged perfidy of the Carthaginians, who were
preparing, he said, a large fleet, ostensibly to aid the Romans, but with the intention of
using it on the side to which their own interest should seem to point. Again we hear of his
being sent by his father to Carthage, to require the restoration of those who had been exiled
for. attachment to his cause. On the death of Masinissa, in B. C.
149, Scipio portioned his royal prerogatives among his sons, assigning to Gulussa,
whom Appian mentions as a skilful general, the decision of peace and war. In the third Punic
war, which broke out in the same year, Gulussa joined the Romans, and appears to have done
them good service. In B. C. 148 he was present at the siege of
Carthage, and acted as mediator, though unsuccessfully, between Scipio and
Hasdrubal, the Carthaginian commander. He and his brother Manastabal were carried off by
sickness, leaving the undivided royal power to Micipsa. Gulussa left a son, named MASSIVA. (Liv. 42.23, 24, 43.3; Plb. 39.1, 2, Spic. Rel. 34.10; Plin. Nat. 8.10; App. Pun. 70, 106, 111, 126; Sal. Jug. 5, 35.)