[324] CX. It will be a pleasure to me--_Fuerit mihi_. Some editions, as that of Langius, the Bipont, and Burnouf's, have _fuerit mihi pretium_. Something of the kind seems to be wanting. "Res in bonis numeranda fuerit mihi." _Burnouf_. Allen, who omits _pretium_, interprets, "Grata mihi egestas sit, quae ad tuam, amicitiam coufugiat;" but who can deduce this sense from the passage, unless he have _pretium_, or something similar, in his mind? [325] CXI. That part of Numidia which he claimed--_Numidiae partem quam nunc peteret_. See the second note on c. 102. Bocchus continues, in his speech in the preceding chapter, to signify that a part of Numidia belonged to him. [326] The ties of blood--_Cognationem_. To this blood-relationship between him and Jugurtha no allusion is elsewhere made. [327] His resolution gave way--_Lenitur_. Cortius whom Gerlach and Müller follow, reads _leniter_, but, with Kritzius and Gerlach, I prefer the verb to the adverb; which, however, is found in the greater number of the manuscripts. [328] CXII. Interests of both--_Ambobus_. Both himself and Jugurtha. [329] CXIV. At that time--_ Eâ tempestate_. "In many manuscripts is found _ex eâ tempestate_, by which the sense is wholly perverted. Sallust signifies that Marius did not continue always deserving of such honor; for, as is said in c. 63, 'he was afterward carried headlong by ambition.'" _Kritzius_.