After a loss, Bonifacius barricaded himself in Hippo Regius, a heavily fortified city  near the modern border of Algeria and Tunisia and the most important religious center of Roman  Africa.

失败后，博尼费修斯将自己设在希波雷吉乌斯，这是一座戒备森严的城市，靠近阿尔及利亚和突尼斯的现代边界，是罗马非洲最重要的宗教中心。