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Jugurtha

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Jugurtha , c.156-104 BC, king of Numidia, a grandson of Masinissa . On the death of Micipsa (118 BC), the royal power devolved upon his two sons and upon his adopted son Jugurtha. The latter ousted the other two heirs and united Numidia under his rule. In the process, however, some Italians were murdered, leading Rome to invade Numidia; peace was reestablished in 111 BC Jugurtha, on a visit to Rome to explain his acts, ordered a rival murdered. War was resumed, and the Romans under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus gained some notable successes. Under a new commander, Caius Marius , the... Read more

Sallust
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ... Jonson's Catiline , and Belum Iugurthinum (The War Against Jugurtha). He was popular in the Middle Ages, and his practice of including ... copied by William of Poitiers and William of Malmesbury . The Jugurtha was translated by A. Barclay early in the 16th cent., and T ... Read more

Marius, Gaius
A Dictionary of World History ... –86 BC) Roman general and politician. Consul for the first time in 107, he established his dominance by victories over Jugurtha and invading Germanic tribes. He was subsequently involved in a struggle for power with Sulla and was expelled from Italy ... Read more

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	Habib Bourguiba. The Economist (US); 4/15/2000; 787 words ; ... admired. They were Hannibal, perhaps the greatest of military commanders, St Augustine, who was born in what is now Algeria, Jugurtha, a king who stood up to the Romans, and Ibn Khaldun, who changed the way of writing history. Above these portraits was a larger ... Read more
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	How did the Colosseum? The Spectator; 9/22/2007; Raphael, Frederic; 787 words ; ... were more discreetly done away with). When the Moorish king Jugurtha was thrust into the Tullianum, Matyszak tells us that he cried ... how cold it was. But if I remember rightly, Sallust quotes Jugurtha saying, 'How cold this bath of yours is.' His cell may actually ... Read more
	Friends, Romans and Countrymen The Washington Post; 11/4/1990; Rita Mae Brown; 787 words ; ... Julia, her quasi-fictional sister Julilla and Jugurtha, King of Numidia, are well conceived yet burdened ... shows to good effect the relationship of King Jugurtha to his half-brother Bomilcar. Jugurtha, treated as a cast-off client of Rome while ... Read more
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