[216] Devoid of vegetation--_Nuda gignentium_. So c. 93, _cunota gignentium natura_. Kritzius justly observes that _gignentia_ is not to be taken in the sense of _genita_, as Cortius and others interpret, but in its own active sense; the ground was bare _of all that was productive_, or _of whatever generates any thing_. This interpretation is suggested by Perizonius ad Sanctu Minerv. i. 15. [217] Sacrificed themselves--_Seque vitamque--condonavere_. "Nihil aliud est quàm _vitam suam_, sc.[Greek: _eu dia dyoin_]." _Allen_. [218] LXXX. Sell--honorable or dishonorable--_Omnia honesta atque inhonesta vendere_. See Cat. c. 30. They had been bribed by Jugurtha to use their influence against Bocchus. [219] A daughter of Bocchus, too, was married to Jugurtha--_Jugurthae filia Bocchi nupserat_. Several manuscripts and old editions have _Boccho_, making Bocchus the son-in-law of Jugurtha. But Plutarch (Vit. Mar. c. 10, Sull. c. 8) and Florus (iii. 1) agree in speaking of him as Jugurtha's father-in-law. Bocchus was doubtless an older man than Jugurtha, having a grown up son, Volux, c. 105. Castilioneus and Cortius, therefore, saw the necessity of reading _Bocchi_, and, other editors have followed them, except Gerlach, "who," says Kritzius, "has given _Bocchi_ in his larger, and _Boccho_ in his smaller and more recent edition, in order that readers using both may have an opportunity of making a choice." [220] No one of them becomes a companion to him--_Nulla pro sociâ obtinet The use of _obtinet_ absolutely, or with the word dependent on it understood, prevails chiefly among the later Latin writers. Livy, however, has _fama obtinuit_, xxi. 46. "The _tyro_ is to be reminded," says Dietsch, "that _obtinet_ is not the same as _habetar_, but is always for _locum obtinet_." [221] LXXXI. The two kings, with their armies--The text has only _exercitus_. [222] To lessen Bocchus's chance of peace--_Bocchi pacem imminuere_. He wished to engage Bocchus in some act of hostility against the Romans, so as to render any coalition between them impossible. [223] LXXXII. Should have learned something of the Moors --_Cognitis Mauris, i.e._ after knowing something of the Moors, _and not before_. _Cognitis militibus_ is used in the same way in c. 39; and Dietsch says that _amicitia Jugurthae parum cognita_ is for _nondum cognita_, c. 14. [224] LXXXIV. Discharged veterans--_Homines emeritis stipendiis._ Soldiers who had completed their term of service. [225] Means of warfare--_Usum belli._ That is _ea quae belli usus posceret_, troops and supplies. [226] Cherished the fancy--_Animis trahebant. "Trahere animo_ is always to revolve in the mind, not to let the thought of a thing escape from the mind." _Kritzius_. [227] LXXXV. Its interests ought to be managed, etc.--_Majore curâ illam administrari quàm haec peti debere._ Cortius injudiciously omits the word _illam_. No one has followed him but Allen. [228] Hostile--_Occursantis._ Thwarting, opposing.