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

‘The latest news, sir, is that Jugurtha’s name is no longer Jugurtha.’

From The Animal Story Book by Various

He left the army under the guidance of his brother Aulus, who, with his officers, were easily bribed into accepting any terms, provided they were of a pecuniary nature, that Jugurtha proposed to them.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?

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.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm