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CXIII. Hæc Maurus CXIII. The Moor, mufing up-
on this propofal a good while, at
laft promifed. but whether with
a fraudulent defign,or fincerely, I
do not find. But princes humours
generally, as they are very violent,
fo are they fickle, and often incon-
fifient. After this,time and place
being appointed, [ for coming to a
conference about the peace], Boc-
chus called one while for Sulla,
another while for Jugurtha's en-
voy, treated them kindly, promi-
fed the fame thing to both. They
were equally well pleafed, and
full of good hopes. But in the
night, that was immediately be-
fore the day appointed for the
conference, the Moor calling his
friends, and prefently, upon a
change of his refolution, dismissing
them, is said to have ruminated
on the matter a long time by him-
felf, with great unftaidness as
well in his countenance as in his
thoughts: which plainly, though
he was filent, difcovered the fe-,
crets of his breaft. However, at
laft he orders Sulla to be jent for,
and, in concert with him, lays the
plot for the Numidian. Then, as
foon as it was day, and he was
informed, that Jugurtha was not
far off; he with a few friends
and our Quaftor marches out as
if it had been to meet him with a

fecum ipfe diu volvens tandem promifit. ceterùm dolo, an verè, parum comperimus. Sed plerumque regiæ voluntates, ut vehementes, fic mobiles, fæpe ipfæ fibi advorfæ. Poftea tempore et loco conftituto, [in colloquium uti de pace veniretur, Bocchus Sullam modò, modò Jugurthe legatum adpellare, benignè habere, idem ambobus polliceri. Illi pariter læti, ac fpei bonæ pleni. Sed nofte eâ, quæ proxuma fuit ante diem colloquio decretum, Maurus adhibitis amicis, ac ftatim immutatâ voluntate, remotis, dicitur fecum ipfe multa agitaviffe, voltu corporis pariter, atque animo varius: quæ fcilicet, tacente ipfo, occulta pe&toris patefeciffe. Tamen poftremò Sulfam arceffiri jubet, et ex ejus fententia Numidæ infidias tendit. Deinde, ubi dies advenit, et ei nunciatum eft, Jugurtham haud procul ab effe; cum paucis amicis et Quæftore noftro, quafi obvius honoris caufsâ,

CXIII. 1. Voltu corporis] The expreffion is fomewhat fingular, and one may think corporis fuperfluous: but as it is to be taken explicatively, and in oppofition to animi, it is not without its own beauty. We meet with feveral fuch fuperfiuities in Saljuft, fuch as, timor animi virtus anini, folis ardores, navium carine, &c.

2. Que fcilicet] Nempe remotionem anicorum repentinam, quòd fecum ipfe folus multa agitaverit, quòd vultum mutaverit.

procedit

procedit in tumulum, facillumum vifu infidiantibus. Eodem Numida cum plerifque neceffariis fuis, inermus, ut dictum, accedit; ac ftatim, figno dato, undique fimul ex infidiis invaditur. Ceteri obtruncati: Jugurtha Sullæ vinctus traditur, et ab eo ad Marium deductus.

CXIV. Per idem tempus advorfum Gallos ab ducibus noftris, Q. Cæpione et M. Manlio malè pugnatum. quo metu Italia omnis contremuerat. Ilique et inde ad noftram memoriam Romani fic habuere alia omnia virtuti fuæ prona effe; cum Gallis pro falute, non pro

defign of doing him honour,to a little hill, that was easy to be feenby those who lay in ambufcade. Thither, as had been appointed,the Numidian came unarmed, with most of his friends; and immediately, upon a fignal given, he is befet by those who lay in ambush, on all fides at once. The reft are cut to pieces: Jugurtha is delivered in chains to Sulla, and by him carried to Marius.

CXIV. About the fame timefome battles had been fought with ill fuccefs by our generals, 2. Cæpio and M. Manlius, against the Gauls. with the terror whereof all Italy had been put into a confternation. For both they, and all the Romans after them, down to our times, have been of opinion: that every thing else ftooped to their bravery ; but that they

3. Sullé vinctus traditur] Plutarch informs us, that Sulla was fo proud of his fuccefs in this affair, that he caufed make for himself an annulus fignatorius, or fealing ring, on which was represented Bocchus delivering up Jugartha to him. But this piece of vanity in Sulla gave great offence to Marius.

CXIV. 1. Advorfum Gallos] or rather advorsum Germanos ; fór those : here meant were the Cimbri, Teutoni, and Tigurini, a very numerous people, being upwards of 300,000, going about in queft of new fettlements. They had fent to the fenate at Rome, defiring they would give them fome land, but were refused; as we have the history in Flor. III. cap. iii. Repulft igitur, quad nequiverant precibus, armis petere confituunt. Sed nec primum quidem impetum barbarorum Silanus, nec fecundum Manlius, nec tertium Capio fuftinere potuerunt. Omnes fuga ti, exuti caftris. Actum erat, nifi Marius illi Jeculo contigiffet.

2. Ilique et inde] Illi, i. c. Itali. The reference of illi to Italia is. the fame as that of qui to Africa, cap. lxxxix. n. 3.

3. Cum Gallis pro falute] About the year of Rome 364, the Gauls took and burnt the city; which ftruck fuch a mighty terror into the Romans, and filled them with foch dreadful apprehenfions of the Gauls, that for feveral ages after, even down to the days of our author, the Gallic name was more formidable to them than that of any other nation whatfoever,

quam

gloria certare. Sed poftquam bellum in Numidia confectum, et Jugurtham vinctum adduci Romam nunciatum eft; Marius Conful abfens factus, et ei decreta provincia Gallia. ifque Kalendis Januariis magnâ gloriâ Conful triumphavit. Eâ tempeftate fpes atque opes civitatis in illo fitæ.

fought with the Gauls for life, not for glory. But after the news was brought, that the war in Numidia was ended, and that Jugurtha was coming in chains to Rome; Marius, though abfent, was made Conful again, and the province of Gaul affigned him. and he triumphed, being Conful, upon the firft of January, with great glory. At that time the hopes and fecurity of the state refted upon him.

4. Marius Conful abfens factus] This thews the high opinion the people then entertained of Marius; for it was a thing exceeding rare, and very extraordinary, nay, it was a difpenfing with the law itself, which forbade any one to be elected Conful in his abfence, or to be rechofen, till ten years at least had intervened.

5. Kalendis Januariis magnâ gloriá Conful triumphavit] This was the year of Rome 649, and the day on which the new Confuls entered upon their office, which was a great folemnity by itself; but as it was allo the day of the triumph, we may well fuppofe, that the pomp and fplendour in which Marius then appeared, was fuch, as abundantly justifies our author in saying, Magnâ gloriâ triumphavit. On this occafion Ma rius exhibited a fight to the Romans, which they fcarcely expected ever to have feen, I mean Jugurtha in chains, as we learn from Eutrop. IV. cap. xxviii. Ante currum Marii Jugurtha cum duobus filiis ductus eft catenatus. And Plutarch, in his life of Marius, informs us, that Jugurtha, as he walked in the procesion, ran distracted. After the ceremony was over, he was caft into prifon; and the Lictors were fo eager to feize his rob, that they rent it in feveral pieces, and tore away the tips of his ears, to get the rich jewels with which they were adorned. In this condition he was thrown ftark naked into a deep dungeon, that was to be his grave; upon going down into which, vultu in rifum verfo, he uttered thefe words, Hercules, quàm frigilum nobis eft balneum! Here, after firuggling fix days with cold and hunger, he ended his wicked life by a wretched death. Agreeable to this account are the following verses, fubjoined to fome of the old manufcripts,

Noffe cupis vulgò non cognita fata Jugurthe,
Ut Plutarchus ait, carcere claufus obit.

6. E tempeftate] This is faid emphatically, and in oppofition to what followed; for, fome years after this, Marius, purfuing the ambitious purposes of his afpiring foul, carried matters to fuch an immode rate height, as introduced the civil wars betwixt him and Sulla, which brought vaft destruction and desolation upon Rome and all Italy.

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