1But when this became known at Rome, fear and grief seized the citizens: some grieved for the glory of the empire, others, unused to warfare, feared for their liberty; 1everyone was hostile to Aulus, and above all those who had often distinguished themselves in war, because, with arms in his hands, he had sought safety by disgrace rather than by fighting. 2For these reasons the consul Albinus, fearing odium and then danger from his brother's offence, consulted the senate about the treaty, and yet in the meantime he enrolled reinforcements for the army, summoned auxiliaries from the allies and the Latin name, and in short hurried on in every way.
3The senate decreed, as was proper, that no treaty could have been made without its own and the people's authorisation. 4The consul, prevented by the tribunes of the plebs from taking with him the forces he had raised, set out for Africa within a few days; 4for the whole army, as had been agreed, had been withdrawn from Numidia and was wintering in the province. 5After he arrived there, although he burned in his heart to pursue Jugurtha and to remedy the odium attaching to his brother, when he came to know the soldiers, whom, besides the rout, the slackening of discipline had corrupted through licence and wantonness, he decided in view of the circumstances that he must undertake nothing.