Jugurtha
noun
died 104 b.c., king of Numidia 113–104.
Jugurthine
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a word derived from
Jugurtha.
Example Sentences
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His quarrel with Sulla had probably commenced, springing from jealousy as to deeds done in the Jugurthine war.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
But to the masses the imagined shame of the Jugurthine War had now become but a single count in an indictment.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
In the midst of inconceivable corruption, the Jugurthine War served only to postpone for a moment an explosion which was inevitable.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
The portraits of the other principal characters, who figured in the Jugurthine War, are also well brought out.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
These words show that Sallust, at this time, had not thought of writing Histories, but that he turned his attention to that pursuit after he had finished the Jugurthine war.
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
