Sallust as to Plutarch. [199] LXX. To which Jugurtha--was unable to attend--_Quae Jugartha, fesso, aut majoribus astricto, superaverant_. "Which had remained to (or been too much for) Jugurtha, when weary, or engaged in more important affairs." [200] Among the winter-quarters of the Romans--_Inter hiberna Romanorum_.It is stated in c. 61, as Kritzius observes, that Metellus, when he put his army into winter-quarters, had, at the same time, placed garrisons in such of Jugurtha's towns as had revolted to him. The forces of the Romans being thus dispersed, Nabdalsa might justly be said to have his army _inter hiberna_, "_among_ their winter-quarters." [201] LXXI. Behind his head--_Super caput_. On the back of the bolster that supported his head; part of which might be higher than the head itself. [202] LXXIIL The factious tribunes--_Seditiosi magistratus_. [203] After the lapse of many years--_Post multas tempestates_. Apparently the period since A.U.C. 611, when Quintus Pompeius, who, as Cicero says (in Verr. ii. 5), was _humile atque obscuro loco natus_, obtained the consulship; that is, a term of forty-three or forty-four years. [204] That decree was thus rendered abortive--_Ea res frustra fuit_. By a _lex Sempronia_, a law of Caius Gracchus, it was enacted that the senate should fix the provinces for the future consuls before the _comitia_ for electing them were held. But from Jug. c. 26, it appears that the consuls might settle by lot, or by agreement between themselves, which of those two provinces each of them should take. How far the senate were allowed or accustomed in general, to interfere in the arrangement, it is not easy to discover: but on this occasion they had taken on themselves to pass a resolution in favor of the patrician. Lest similar scenes, however, to those of the Sempronian times should be enacted, they yielded the point to the people. [205] LXXV. Thala--The river on which this town stood is not named by Sallust, but it appears to have been the Bagrada. It seems to have been nearly destroyed by the Romans, after the defeat of Juba, in the time of Julius Caesar; though Tacitus, Ann. iii. 21, mentions it as having afforded a refuge to the Romans in the insurrection of the Numidian chief, Tacfarinas. D'Anville and Dr. Shaw, _Travels in Bombay_, vol. i. pt. 2, ch. 5, think it the same with Telepte, now _Ferre-anah_; but this is very doubtful. See Cellar. iv. 5. It was in ruins in the time of Strabo. [206] Had done more than was required of them--_Officia intenderant._ "Auxit _intenditque_ saevitiam exacerbatus indicio filii sui Drusi" Suet. Tib. 62. [207] LXXVI. Nor did he ever--continue, etc.--_Neque postea--moratus, simulabat_, etc.--Most editors take _moratus_ for _morans_; Allen places a colon after it, as if it were for _moratus est_.