1So on the next day, before going out to the assault, he ordered all the cavalry to patrol in front of the camp in the area from which the king would come, assigned the gates and the nearest places to the tribunes, and then went in person to the town and attacked the wall as on the previous day. 1Meanwhile Jugurtha suddenly attacked our men from hiding: those who had been placed nearest were frightened and thrown into confusion for a little while, but the rest quickly came to help. 3Nor would the Numidians have been able to hold out any longer, had not their infantry, mixed in with the cavalry, done great damage in the encounter.
3Relying on them, the horsemen did not, as usually happens in a cavalry battle, pursue and then give way, but charged straight in with their horses, entangled and threw the line into confusion: so they handed the enemy over, almost beaten, to their own light infantry.