Iug. 16.1Vīcit tamen in senātū pars illa, quae vērō pretium aut grātiam anteferēbat.Yet that party prevailed in the senate which put money or influence before the truth. Iug. 16.2Dēcrētum fit, utī decem lēgātī regnum, quod Micipsa obtinuerat, inter Iugurtham et Adherbalem dīviderent.A decree is passed that ten commissioners should divide the kingdom which Micipsa had held between Jugurtha and Adherbal. Iug. 16.2Quoius lēgātiōnis prīnceps fuit L. Opīmius, homō clārus et tum in senātū potēns, quia cōnsul C. Gracchō et M. Fulviō Flaccō interfectīs ācerrumē victōriam nōbilitātis in plēbem exercuerat.The head of this commission was Lucius Opimius, a distinguished man and at that time powerful in the senate, because as consul, after Gaius Gracchus and Marcus Fulvius Flaccus had been killed, he had pressed the nobility's victory over the commons most harshly. Iug. 16.3Eum Iugurtha tametsī Rōmae in inimīcīs habuerat, tamen accūrātissumē recēpit, dandō et pollicendō multa perfēcit, utī fāmā, fidē, postrēmō omnibus suīs rēbus commodum rēgis anteferret.Although Jugurtha had counted him among his enemies at Rome, he nevertheless received him with the greatest attention and, by giving and promising much, brought it about that he put the king's advantage before his reputation, his honour, in short before all his own interests.
Iug. 16.4Reliquōs lēgātōs eādem viā aggressus plērōsque capit, paucīs cārior fidēs quam pecūnia fuit.Approaching the other commissioners in the same way, he wins over most of them; to a few their honour was dearer than money. Iug. 16.5In dīvīsiōne, quae pars Numidiae Mauretāniam attingit, agrō virīsque opulentior, Iugurthae trāditur;In the division, the part of Numidia that borders on Mauretania, richer in land and men, is handed over to Jugurtha; Iug. 16.5illam alteram speciē quam ūsū potiōrem, quae portuōsior et aedificiīs magis exōrnāta erat, Adherbal possēdit.the other, better in appearance than in usefulness, which had more harbours and was more adorned with buildings, Adherbal took possession of.