[147] XLIII. Of a character uniformly irreproachable--_Famâ tamen aequabili et inviolatâ. Aequabilis_ is uniform, always the same, keeping an even tenor. [148] Regarded all things as common to himself and his colleague--_Ali omnia sibi cum collegâ ratus._ "Other matters, unconnected with the war against Jugurtha, he thought that he would have to manage in conjunction with his colleague, and that, consequently, he might give but partial attention to them; but that the war in Numidia was committed to his sole care." _Cortius._ Other interpretations of these words have been suggested; but they are fanciful and unworthy of notice. [149] Princes--_Reges._ Who these were, the commentators have not attempted to conjecture. [150] XLIV. By Spurius Albinus, the proconsul.--_A Spurio Albino proconsule_. This is the general reading. Cortius has, _Spurii Albini pro consule_, with which we may understand _agentis_ or _imperantis_, but can hardly believe it to be what Sallust wrote. Kritzius reads, _Spurii Albini proconsulis_. [151] In a stationary camp--_Stativis castris_. In contradistinction to that which the soldiers formed at the end of a day's march. [152] But neither had the camp been fortified, etc.--_Sed neque muniebantur ea_ (se. castra), _neque more militari vigiliae deducebantur_. "The words _sed neque muniebantur ea_ are wanting in almost all the manuscripts, as well as in all the editions, except that of Cyprianus Popma." _Kritzius_. Gerlach, however, had, previously to Kritz, inserted them in his text though in brackets; for he supposed them to be a mere conjecture of some scribe, who was not satisfied with a single _neque_. But they have been found in a codex of Fronto, by Angelo Mai, and have accordingly been received as genuine by Kritz and Dietsch. Potter and Burnouf have omitted the _ea_, thinking, I suppose, that in such a position it could hardly be Sallust's; but the verb requires a nominative case to prevent it from being referred to the following _vigiliae_. [153] Foreign wine--_Vino advectitio_ Imported. Africa does not abound in wine. [154] XLV. With regard to other things--Caeteris. Cortius, whom Gerlach follows, considers this word as referring to the men or officers; but Kritzius and Dietsch, with better judgment, understand _rebus_. [155] Numerous sentinels--_Vigilias crebras_. At short intervals, says Kritzius, from each other. [156] XLVI. Villages--_Mapalibus_. See c. xviii. The word is here used for a collection of huts, a village.