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

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

‘Directly he lives in a tub, he cannot be Jugurtha any more; he must be Diogenes.’

From The Animal Story Book by Various

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

The spirit that had shown itself in the savage destruction of Carthage and Corinth was shown again in the treatment of Jugurtha.

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