Iug. 39.1Sed ubi ea Rōmae comperta sunt, metus atque maeror cīvitātem invāsēre: pars dolēre prō glōriā imperī, pars īnsolita rērum bellicārum timēre lībertātī;But 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; Iug. 39.1aulō omnēs īnfestī, ac māxumē quī bellō saepe praeclārī fuerant, quod armātus dēdecore potius quam manū salūtem quaesīverat.everyone 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. Iug. 39.2Ob ea cōnsul Albīnus ex dēlictō frātris invidiam ac deinde perīculum timēns senātum dē foedere cōnsulēbat, et tamen interim exercituī supplēmentum scrībere, ab sociīs et nōmine Latīnō auxilia arcessere, dēnique omnibus modīs festīnāre.For 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.
Iug. 39.3Senātus ita, utī pār fuerat, dēcernit suō atque populī iniussū nūllum potuisse foedus fierī.The senate decreed, as was proper, that no treaty could have been made without its own and the people's authorisation. Iug. 39.4Cōnsul impedītus ā tribūnīs plēbis, nē quās parāverat cōpiās sēcum portāret, paucīs diēbus in Āfricam proficīscitur;The 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; Iug. 39.4nam omnis exercitus, utī convēnerat, Numidiā dēductus in prōvinciā hiemābat.for the whole army, as had been agreed, had been withdrawn from Numidia and was wintering in the province. Iug. 39.5Postquam eō vēnit, quamquam persequī Iugurtham et medērī frāternae invidiae animō ārdēbat, cognitīs mīlitibus, quōs praeter fugam solūtō imperiō licentiā atque lascīviā corrūperat, ex cōpiā rērum statuit sibi nihil agitandum.After 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.