Jugurtha
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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.
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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
Hiempsal II. was the son of Gauda, the half-brother of Jugurtha.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Longfellow in his little poem "Jugurtha," has substituted, it is hard to say by what authority, the name of Apollo for that of Heracles: How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland
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