Caii Sallustii Crispi Jugurtha Author:Sallust General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Original Publisher: Macmillan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER LXXXVIII. 1. Metellus Interea, etc.] For the honours paid to Me- tellus see c. 43, note 1. At a later period he was driven into exile by the influence of a tribune named Saturninus, and once more restored to his country, notwithstanding the opposition of Marius. 2. Contra spem suam] " Contrary to his expectation." 3. In Itinere] " On their way." 4. Armis exuerat] " Had stripped of his arms," i. e. had put to flight and compelled to cast away his arms. Comp. Liv. xxii. 21; Caes. B. G. iii. 6. 5. Belli patrandi] " Such as would bring the war to a close." Comp. Liv. xxxix. 16, judieabant nihil aequae dissol - vendae religionis ease. 6. Pro hostibus et adversns se] "Advantageous to the enemy and disadvantageous to himself." 7. Solitus] Supply fuerit, implied in simulaverit. Comp. Juflur. 113, ceterum dolo an vere cunctatus parum comperimus; where supp. promiserit, from the preceding clause. CHAPTER LXXXIX. 1. In manus venturum] "Would engage." Tac. Hist. iv. 71, ut ventum in manus deturbati praecipitantur. 2. Magnum atque valensj " Large in size and abounding in resources." 3. Capsa] A city lying between the Bagrada and the lacus Tritonis. Strabo calls it the treasury (yafoj/uaKiov) of Ju- gurtha. 4. Hercules Libya] The Libyan Hercules is the same as the Tyrian and the Phoenician, Herod. ii. 44: the legendary discoverer and conqueror of Africa in the Carthaginian mythology. 5. Immunes] "Free from contributions." 6. Una] Scil. aqua, "a single spring of water:" jngi, "unfailing." Jugis differs from jicrennis: the one is "unfailing," the other "ever-flowing,...« less