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  • Marius rose to prominence in the so - called Jugurthine War, which the Romans were waging against Jugurtha, king of Numidia.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • (Sallust, The Jugurthine War, VIII, 83) On this view, America is fighting a war in Iraq that cannot be won.

    Archive 2008-03-01 xtra 2008

  • (Sallust, The Jugurthine War, VIII, 83) On this view, America is fighting a war in Iraq that cannot be won.

    History Lesson: What Constitutes "Victory" in War Ilya 2008

  • Gaius Marius, a new man, while Metellus's legate and against senatorial opposition, won the consulship and the Jugurthine command.

    e. Domestic Strife 2001

  • Marius ended the Jugurthine War and triumphed in Rome.

    e. Domestic Strife 2001

  • The Jugurthine War resulted when the kingdom of Numidia was usurped by Jugurtha, who eventually had to fight Q. Caecilius Metellus (Numidicus).

    e. Domestic Strife 2001

  • C. Sallustius Crispus (Sallust, c. 86–c. 35) wrote two classic historical monographs—the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, as well as a major history (lost).

    3. Civil War and Renewal, 70 B.C.E.-14 C.E 2001

  • Catiline and The Jugurthine War by Sallust who, during the few years after the assassination of his patron,

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • The romantic history of this African king is familiar to all readers of Sallust, who gives a masterly account of the Jugurthine war.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • One year in the Jugurthine war is left unaccounted for, and

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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