Jugurtha

American  

[joo-gur-thuh] / dʒuˈgɜr θə /

noun

1. died 104 b.c., king of Numidia 113–104.

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Jugurtha British  

/ dʒuːˈɡɜːθə /

noun

1. died 104 _bc , king of Numidia (?112–104), who waged war against the Romans (the Jugurthine War, 112–105) and was defeated and executed

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Other Word Forms

• Jugurthine
  adjective

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Jugurtha

By 105 BCE, Jugurtha was captured and then paraded through the Roman streets in chains.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

In 107 BCE, he ran for consul by denouncing the traditional Roman elites as weak and ineffective generals and promising to quickly end the war with Jugurtha.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Further to conciliate the Romans and especially Sulla, he sent to the Capitol a group of Victories guarding a device in gold showing Bocchus handing over Jugurtha to Sulla.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

Woodcut of the translator presenting his book to the Duke of Norfolk, from Alexander Barclay’s version of Sallust’s Jugurtha.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

For it was Sulla who had actually captured Jugurtha.

From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Hamilton, Mary Agnes