11. Ad ea Jugurtha, tametsi regem ficta locutum intellegebat et ipse longe aliter animo agitabat, tamen pro tempore benigne respondit. Micipsa paucis post diebus moritur. Postquam illi more regio justa magnifice fecerant, reguli[64] in unum convenerunt, ut inter se de cunctis negotiis disceptarent. Sed Hiempsal, qui minimus ex illis erat, natura ferox et jam ante ignobilitatem Jugurthae, quia materno genere impar erat, despiciens, dextera Adherbalem assedit,[65] ne medius ex tribus, quod apud Numidas honori ducitur, Jugurtha foret. Dein tamen ut aetati concederet fatigatus[66] a fratre, vix in partem alteram transductus est. Ibi quum mulla de administrando imperio dissererent, Jugurtha inter alias res jacit oportere quinquennii consulta et decreta omnia rescindi; nam per ea tempora confectum annis Micipsam parum animo valuisse. Tum idem Hiempsal placere sibi respondit; nam ipsum illum tribus proximis annis[67] adoptatione in regnum pervenisse. Quod verbum in pectus Jugurthae altius, quam quisquam ratus erat, descendit. Itaque ex eo tempore ira et metu anxius moliri, parare atque ea modo cum animo habere,[68] quibus Hiempsal per dolum caperetur. Quae ubi tardius procedunt neque lenitur animus ferox, statuit quovis modo inceptum perficere. [64] _Reguli_ may be petty kings with small dominions as well as young kings--that is, princes. We here take the latter to be the meaning. [65] _Adherbalem assedit_, or _Adherbali assedit_, 'he sat himself down at the right-hand side of Adherbal.' See Zumpt, S 386, note. There accordingly remained for Jugurtha only the place on the left of Adherbal--that is, the least honourable of the three places. [66] _Fatigatus_ is commonly construed with an ablative, which is here to be supplied (_precibus_); but without such an addition, _fatigare_ signifies 'to importune a person with prayers and requests.' [67] 'Within the last three years;' but as the author is here speaking of the time at which something happened, it is used instead of _ante triennium_, or _triennio ante_. [68] _Cum animo habere_, the same as _cum_, or _in animo agitare_, _volvere_, _reputare_. Here, again, we must attend to the use of _habere_.