Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 47

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Erat haud longe ab eo itinere, quo Metellus pergebat, oppidum Numidarum nomine Vaga, forum rerum venalium totius regni maxime celebratum, ubi et incolere et mercari consueuerant Italici generis multi mortales. Huc consul, simul temptandi gratia, et si paterentur, et ob opportunitates loci, praesidium imposuit. Praeterea imperauit frumentum et alia, quae bello usui forent, comportare, ratus, id quod res monebat, frequentiam negotiatorum et commeatu m iuvaturum exercitum et iam paratis rebus munimento fore. Inter haec negotia Iugurtha impensius modo legatos supplices mittere, pacem orare, praeter suam liberorumque vitam omnia Metello dedere. Quos item uti priores consul illectos ad proditionem domum dimittebat, regi pacem, quam postulabat, neque abnuere neque polliceri et inter eas moras promissa legatorum expectare.

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Bellum Iugurthinum Perseus (Sallust. C. Sallusti Crispi Catilina, Iugurtha, orationes et epistulae excerptae de historiis. Ahlberg, Axel Wilhelm, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1919.) — 47 focus

1 Erat haud longe ab eo itinere, quo Metellus pergebat, oppidum Numidarum nomine Vaga, forum rerum venalium totius regni maxume celebratum, ubi et incolere et mercari consueverant Italici generis multi mortales. 2 huc consul, simul temptandi gratia, si paterentur, et ob opportunitates loci, praesidium inposuit. praeterea imperavit frumentum et alia, quae bello usui forent, conportare, ratus, id quod res monebat, frequentiam negotiatorum et commeatu m iuvaturam exercitum et iam paratis rebus munimento fore. 3 inter haec negotia Iugurtha impensius modo legatos supplices mittere, pacem orare, praeter suam liberorumque vitam omnia Metello dedere. 4 quos item uti priores consul illectos ad proditionem domum dimittebat, regi pacem, quam postulabat, neque abnuere neque polliceri et inter eas moras promissa legatorum expectare.

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Jugurthine War Perseus (Sallust. Sallust, Florus, and Velleius Paterculus. Watson, J. S. (John Selby), translator. London: Harper & Brothers, 1899.) — 47 focus

There lay, not far from the route which Metellus was pursuing, a city of the Numidians named Vaga, the most celebrated place for trade in the whole kingdom, in which many Italian merchants were accustomed to reside and traffic. Here the consul, to try the disposition of the inhabitants, and, should they allow him, to take advantage of the situation of the place,¹ established a garrison, and ordered the people to furnish him with corn, and other necessaries for war; thinking, as circumstances indeed suggested, that the concourse of merchants, and frequent arrival of supplies,² would add strength to his army, and further the plans which he had already formed.

In the midst of these proceedings, Jugurtha, with extraordinary earnestness,³ sent deputies to sue for peace, offering to resign every thing to Metellus, except his own life and that of his children. These, like the former, the consul first seduced to treachery, and then sent back; the peace which Jugurtha asked, he neither granted nor refused, but waited, during these delays, the performance of the deputies' promises.

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