1About the same time a battle was lost against the Gauls by our generals Quintus Caepio and Marcus Manlius.2With fear of this all Italy had trembled.2Both the Romans of that day and from then right down to our own time have held this view: that everything else was easy for their courage, but that with the Gauls they fought for survival, not for glory.3But after it was announced that the war in Numidia was over and that Jugurtha was being brought to Rome in chains, Marius was elected consul in his absence, and Gaul was decreed to him as his province, and on the first of January he celebrated a triumph as consul with great glory.
4And at that time the hopes and resources of the state rested in him.
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Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum. Latin text: the Perseus digital text of Sallust's Jugurthine War, with chapter 79 onwards in part from A. W. Ahlberg (Teubner, 1919), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.