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

Example Sentences

He is survived by his wife, Djamila; two sons, Jugurtha and Salah-Eddine; and a daughter, Bushra.

From New York Times

Hiempsal II. was the son of Gauda, the half-brother of Jugurtha.

From Project Gutenberg

Jugurtha referred to the cold and dark prison into which he was plunged as into an icy bath.

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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!

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Sallust, in his Jugurtha, has shown how such men waged war, and to what extremes their well-deserved want might push them in his Catiline.

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