1Volux on arrival addresses the quaestor and says that he has been sent by his father Bocchus to meet them and at the same time to protect them. 1Then they march together without fear that day and the next. 2Afterwards, when the camp had been pitched and it was evening, suddenly the Moor, with a troubled face and in alarm, runs to Sulla and says that he has learned from scouts that Jugurtha is not far away. 2At the same time he begs and urges him to flee secretly with him by night. 3Sulla proudly says that he is not afraid of the Numidian, routed so often: he trusted well enough in the courage of his men; 3even if certain destruction were at hand, he would rather stay than, by betraying those he was leading, save by shameful flight a life that was uncertain and perhaps soon to perish by disease.
4However, when advised by the same man to set out by night, he approves the plan; 4and at once he orders the soldiers to have their dinner in the camp and to light as many fires as possible, and then to go out in silence at the first watch. 5And now, when all were weary from the night march, Sulla was measuring out a camp just at sunrise, when Moorish horsemen report that Jugurtha had encamped about two miles ahead. 6When this was heard, then indeed great fear seizes our men; 6they believed they had been betrayed by Volux and trapped in an ambush. 6And there were some who said that he should be punished by force, and that so great a crime on his part should not be left unavenged.