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.
[636] 'During the same time;' that is, the time during which Marius,
as proconsul, was still in Africa, occupied no doubt with the
regulation of the affairs which, owing to the long war, had fallen
into disorder. Bocchus received a part of western Numidia, as far as
the river Ampsaga; and Numidia was divided between Hiempsal
and Hiarbas, two princes of the family of Masinissa. These and
other matters detained Marius in Africa during the year B.C. 105,
in which the Romans under the consul Gn. Manlius and the proconsul
Q. Caepio, suffered a great defeat from the Cimbri, on the
river Rhodanus. This led to the second consulship of Marius, in
B.C. 104. The people whom Sallust here calls Gauls (_Galli_) are
the Cimbri and Teutones, German tribes coming from the countries
about the Elbe. This mistake must be accounted for by the general
difficulty of distinguishing Celtic (Gallic) from Germanic tribes,
and also by the circumstance that the Cimbri had for many years been
wandering about in Gaul.
[637] _Illique_; that is, the Romans then living, as opposed to those in
the time of Sallust. _Sic habuere_, 'entertained this opinion.'
[638] _Certare_; supply _se_; unless we read _certari_, to which it is
easier to supply a _se_.
[639] On the 1st of January B.C. 104. We may here observe, that
Jugurtha, after he had adorned the triumphal procession at Rome,
was put to death in the public prison near the Forum--which is
described by Sallust, _Cat._ 55--at the same hour in which Marius
offered up his thanksgiving to Jupiter Optimus Maximus in the
Capitol.
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