1Meanwhile Albinus, the war having been renewed, hastened to carry supplies, pay and the other things that would be useful to the soldiers to Africa; 1and he himself set out at once, so that before the elections, a time not far off, he might finish the war by arms, by surrender or by any means at all. 2But Jugurtha, on the other hand, dragged everything out and invented one cause of delay after another; 2he promised surrender and then feigned fear; 2he gave way when pressed and shortly afterwards, so that his men should not lose heart, pressed on: thus he mocked the consul with delays now of war, now of peace.
3And there were some who thought at the time that Albinus was not ignorant of the king's design, and who did not believe that after such haste the war had been so easily dragged out through sloth rather than guile. 4But after time had slipped away and the day of the elections drew near, Albinus left his brother Aulus in the camp as propraetor and departed for Rome.