Iug. 19.1Posteā Phoenīcēs, aliī multitūdinis domī minuendae grātiā, pars imperī cupīdine sollicitātā plēbe et aliīs novārum rērum avidīs, Hippōnem, Hadrūmētum, Lepcim aliāsque urbīs in ōrā maritumā condidēre;Later the Phoenicians, some to reduce the population at home, others from desire for power, after stirring up the common people and others eager for revolution, founded Hippo, Hadrumetum, Lepcis and other cities on the sea coast; Iug. 19.1eaeque brevī multum auctae, pars orīginibus suīs praesidiō, aliae decorī fuēre.and these, soon greatly enlarged, were some a protection, others an ornament, to their mother cities. Iug. 19.2Nam dē Carthāgine silēre melius putō quam parum dīcere, quoniam aliō properāre tempus monet.As for Carthage, I think it better to be silent than to say too little, since time warns me to hurry on elsewhere. Iug. 19.3Igitur ad Catabathmon, quī locus Aegyptum ab Āfricā dīvidit, secundō marī prīma Cȳrēnē est, colōnia Thēraeōn, ac deinceps duae Syrtēs interque eās Lepcis, deinde Philaenōn ārae, quem locum Aegyptum vorsus fīnem imperī habuēre Carthāginiēnsēs, post aliae Pūnicae urbēs.Accordingly, starting from Catabathmos, the place which divides Egypt from Africa, following the coast, first is Cyrene, a colony of the Theraeans, and then the two Syrtes and between them Lepcis, then the Altars of the Philaeni, the place which the Carthaginians had as the boundary of their empire towards Egypt, and after that other Punic cities.
Iug. 19.4Cētera loca ūsque ad Mauretāniam Numidae tenent, proxumī Hispāniā Maurī sunt.The other regions as far as Mauretania the Numidians hold; nearest to Spain are the Moors. Iug. 19.5Super Numidiam Gaetūlōs accēpimus partim in tuguriīs, aliōs incultius vagōs agitāre, post eōs Aethiopas esse, dehinc loca exūsta sōlis ardōribus.Beyond Numidia, we are told, the Gaetulians live, some in huts, others wandering in a more uncivilised way; beyond them are the Ethiopians, and then lands burnt up by the heat of the sun. Iug. 19.7Igitur bellō Iugurthīnō plēraque ex Pūnicīs oppida et fīnīs Carthāginiēnsium, quōs novissumē habuerant, populus Rōmānus per magistrātūs administrābat;So at the time of the Jugurthine War the Roman people governed through its magistrates most of the Punic towns and the territory which the Carthaginians had held most recently; Iug. 19.7gaetūlōrum magna pars et Numidae ūsque ad flūmen Muluccham sub Iugurthā erant;a large part of the Gaetulians and the Numidians as far as the river Muluccha were under Jugurtha; Iug. 19.7maurīs omnibus rēx Bocchus imperitābat, praeter nōmen cētera ignārus populī Rōmānī itemque nōbīs neque bellō neque pāce anteā cognitus.over all the Moors ruled King Bocchus, who knew nothing of the Roman people beyond its name, and was likewise unknown to us before either in war or in peace.
Iug. 19.8Dē Āfricā et eius incolīs ad necessitūdinem reī satis dictum.Enough has been said about Africa and its inhabitants for the needs of my subject.