C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et JugurthinoSallust
History
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
Sallust
Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.; Rome -- History -- Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.
[361] _Pro tectis_, 'on the edge of the roofs.'
[362] _Anceps malum_, 'the double attack;' namely, the one made on even
ground, and that from the roofs.
[363] Respecting the connection of _nisi_--_videtur_, instead of the
complete expression _nisi hoc constat_--_eum videri_, see p. 92,
note 2 [note 153]. _Intestabilis_, properly, 'a person unfit to give
his evidence, and incapable of making a will;' hence, according to
Roman usage, equivalent to 'infamous;' _detestabilis_, which also
properly signifies 'one deserving to be excluded in the will,' or 'to
be disinherited.'
68. Metellus, postquam de rebus Vagae actis comperit, paulisper moestus e
conspectu abit; deinde, ubi ira et aegritudo permixta sunt, cum maxima
cura ultum ire injurias festinat. Legionem, cum qua hiemabat, et quam
plurimos potest Numidas equites pariter cum occasu solis expeditos
educit, et postera die circiter horam tertiam pervenit in quandam
planitiem, locis paulo superioribus circumventam. Ibi milites fessos
itineris magnitudine et jam abnuentes omnia[364] docet oppidum Vagam non
amplius mille passuum[365] abesse, decere illos reliquum laborem aequo
animo pati, dum pro civibus suis, viris fortissimis atque miserrimis,
poenas caperent; praeterea praedam benigne ostentat. Sic animis eorum
arrectis, equites in primo[366] late, pedites quam artissime ire et signa
occultare jubet.
[364] 'Declining everything;' that is, refusing to obey any order that
was given them.
[365] _Passuum_ might also be _passus_. See Zumpt, S 116, note.
[366] _In primo_, 'at the head,' or 'in front,' the line being spread out
(_late_), so as to conceal the infantry marching behind the cavalry.
69. Vagenses ubi animum advertere ad se versum exercitum pergere, primo,
uti erat res, Metellum esse rati, portas clausere, deinde ubi neque agros
vastari et eos, qui primi aderant, Numidas equites vident, rursum
Jugurtham arbitrati cum magno gaudio obvii procedunt. Equites peditesque
repente signo dato alii vulgum effusum oppido caedere, alii ad portas
festinare, pars turres capere; ira atque praedae spes amplius quam
lassitudo posse. Ita Vagenses biduum modo ex perfidia laetati; civitas
magna et opulens cuncta poenae aut praedae fuit.[367] Turpilius, quem
praefectum oppidi unum ex omnibus profugisse supra ostendimus, jussus a
Metello causam dicere,[368] postquam sese parum expurgat, condemnatus
verberatusque capite poenas solvit; nam is civis ex Latio erat.
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