1Then, when Memmius had finished speaking and Jugurtha had been ordered to reply, Gaius Baebius, the tribune of the plebs who we said above had been bribed, ordered the king to be silent, and although the crowd present at the meeting, violently inflamed, tried to frighten him with shouting, looks, often rushes and all the other things that anger loves to do, his shamelessness nevertheless won. 2So the people, made a mockery of, left the meeting; 2the spirits of Jugurtha, of Bestia and of the others whom that investigation was harassing rose.
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Bellum Iugurthinum 34
A bribed tribune silences Jugurtha
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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.