Jugurtha
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Numidian king whose ambassadors were restricted by Rome.
Jugurtha’s ambassadors too, as Sallust informs us, were ordered to leave Italy within the space of ten days, unless they came with offers from that prince to surrender himself, and his kingdom.
The historian says, that “Bomilcar was arraigned and tried rather upon principles of equity and natural justice, than in conformity to the law of nations, as he belonged to the train of Jugurtha;
But as it is not usual for one state to allow the armed force of another to enter her territories under the pretext of inflicting punishment upon an offender, it is necessary that the power, in whose kingdom an offender resides, should upon the complaint of the aggrieved party, either punish him itself, or deliver him up to the discretion of that party.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The Numidian king remembered for his exclamation that Rome was for sale, cited here as an example of a complaint against governmental avarice.
Jugurtha’s exclamation against the government of Rome was foolish.
Letters to Lucilius
North African king pursued by Marius through the African desert.
What, do you think that Gaius Marius, once consul, for he received one consulship, the rest he snatched, when he was cutting down the Teutones and Cimbri, when he was pursuing Jugurtha through the deserts of Africa, sought so many perils at the prompting of virtue?
On Tranquillity of Mind
King feared by the Roman people, later made a public show/spectacle within a year of that fear.
nor to Jugurtha, whom the Roman people, within a year of having feared him, made a public show.