Iug. 100.1Dein Marius, utī coeperat, in hīberna it: propter commeātum in oppidīs maritumīs agere dēcrēverat;Then Marius goes into winter quarters, as he had begun to do: he had decided to spend the winter in the coastal towns for the sake of supplies; Iug. 100.1neque tamen victōriā sōcors aut īnsolēns factus, sed pariter atque in cōnspectū hostium quadrātō agmine incēdere.yet he did not become careless or overbearing through victory, but advanced in a square formation just as if in sight of the enemy. Iug. 100.1Sulla cum equitātū apud dextumōs, in sinistrā parte A. Mānlius cum funditōribus et sagittāriīs, praetereā cohortīs Ligurum cūrābat.Sulla with the cavalry had charge on the extreme right, on the left Aulus Manlius with the slingers and archers, and besides the cohorts of Ligurians. Iug. 100.2Prīmōs et extrēmōs cum expedītīs manipulīs tribūnōs locāverat.The front and rear he had assigned to the tribunes with the light-armed maniples. Iug. 100.3Perfugae, minumē cārī et regiōnum scientissumī, hostium iter explōrābant.Deserters, held of least account and best acquainted with the region, scouted the enemy's route. Iug. 100.3Simul cōnsul quasi nūllō inpositō omnia prōvidēre, apud omnīs adesse, laudāre et increpāre merentīs.At the same time the consul, as though no one had been given charge, saw to everything, was present among all, and praised and rebuked those who deserved it.
Iug. 100.4Ipse armātus intentusque, item mīlitēs cōgēbat.He himself was armed and alert, and he compelled the soldiers to be so too. Iug. 100.4Neque secus atque iter facere, castra mūnīre, excubitum in portā cohortīs ex legiōnibus, prō castrīs equitēs auxiliāriōs mittere, praetereā aliōs super vallum in mūnīmentīs locāre, vigiliās ipse circumīre, nōn tam diffīdentiā futūrum quae imperāvisset, quam utī mīlitibus exaequātus cum imperātōre labor volentibus esset.And in just the same way that he marched, he fortified his camp, sent cohorts from the legions to keep watch at the gates and auxiliary cavalry in front of the camp, posted others besides on the rampart in the fortifications, and went round the sentries himself, not so much from distrust that his orders would be carried out, as so that the soldiers might bear willingly a labour shared equally with their commander. Iug. 100.5Et sānē Marius illōque aliīsque temporibus Iugurthīnī bellī pudōre magis quam malō exercitum coercēbat.And indeed Marius, both at that time and at other times in the Jugurthine War, kept his army in check by shame rather than by punishment.
Iug. 100.5Quod multī per ambitiōnem fierī Aiēbant: ā pueritiā cōnsuētam dūritiam et alia, quae cēterī miseriās vocant, voluptātī habuisse;Many said that this was done to court popularity: that from boyhood he had taken pleasure in the hardship he was used to, and in the other things which the rest call miseries; Iug. 100.5nisi tamen rēs pūblica pariter ac saevissumō imperiō bene atque decōrē gesta.and yet the commonwealth was served as well and as honourably as it would have been under the harshest command.