Iug. 27.1Quod postquam Rōmae cognitum est et rēs in senātū agitārī coepta, īdem illī ministrī rēgis interpellandō ac saepe grātiā, interdum iūrgiīs trahundō tempus atrōcitātem factī lēniēbant.When this became known at Rome and the matter began to be debated in the senate, those same agents of the king, by interrupting and by spinning out the time, often through influence and sometimes through wrangling, softened the atrocity of the deed. Iug. 27.2Ac nī C. Memmius tribūnus plēbis dēsignātus, vir ācer et īnfestus potentiae nōbilitātis, populum Rōmānum ēdocuisset id agī, ut per paucōs factiōsōs Iugurthae scelus condōnārētur, profectō omnis invidia prōlātandīs cōnsultātiōnibus dīlāpsa foret: tanta vīs grātiae atque pecūniae rēgis erat.And had not Gaius Memmius, tribune of the plebs elect, a keen man and hostile to the power of the nobility, made clear to the Roman people that the aim was to have Jugurtha's crime pardoned through a few partisans, all the indignation would surely have melted away as the deliberations were put off: so great was the power of the king's influence and money. Iug. 27.3Sed ubi senātus dēlictī cōnscientiā populum timet, lēge Semprōniā prōvinciae futūrīs cōnsulibus Numidia atque Ītalia dēcrētae;But when the senate, conscious of its wrongdoing, came to fear the people, under the Sempronian law Numidia and Italy were assigned as provinces to the next consuls; Iug. 27.3cōnsulēs dēclārātī P. Scīpiō Nāsīca et L. Bēstia Calpurnius;Publius Scipio Nasica and Lucius Bestia Calpurnius were declared consuls; Iug. 27.4calpurniō Numidia, Scīpiōnī Ītalia obvenit.Numidia fell to Calpurnius, Italy to Scipio.
Iug. 27.5Deinde exercitus, quī in Āfricam portārētur, scrībitur;Then an army was enrolled to be carried to Africa; Iug. 27.5stīpendium aliaque, quae bellō ūsuī forent, dēcernuntur.pay and the other things that would be useful for war were voted.