Iug. 61.1Metellus postquam videt frūstrā inceptum neque oppidum capī neque Iugurtham nisi ex īnsidiīs aut suō locō pugnam facere et iam aestātem exāctam esse, ab Zamā discēdit et in iīs urbibus, quae ad sē dēfēcerant satisque mūnītae locō aut moenibus erant, praesidia inpōnit.When Metellus saw that his undertaking was in vain, that the town was not being taken and that Jugurtha would not fight except from ambush or on his own ground, and that the summer was now over, he withdrew from Zama and placed garrisons in those cities which had gone over to him and were sufficiently fortified by position or walls. Iug. 61.2Cēterum exercitum in prōvinciam, quae proxuma est Numidiae, hiemandī grātiā conlocat.As for the army, he stationed it in the province which is nearest to Numidia, for the sake of wintering. Iug. 61.3Neque id tempus ex aliōrum mōre quiētī aut luxuriae concēdit, sed, quoniam armīs bellum parum prōcēdēbat, īnsidiās rēgī per amīcōs tendere et eōrum perfidiā prō armīs ūtī parat.Nor did he give up that time to rest or luxury after the manner of others, but, since the war was making little progress by arms, he prepared to lay a trap for the king through his friends and to use their treachery in place of arms.
Iug. 61.4Igitur Bomilcarem, quī Rōmae cum Iugurthā fuerat et inde vadibus datīs clam dē Massivae nece iūdicium fūgerat, quod eī per maxumam amīcitiam maxuma cōpia fallundī erat, multīs pollicitātiōnibus aggreditur.So he approached with many promises Bomilcar, who had been at Rome with Jugurtha and from there, after giving sureties, had secretly fled trial for the murder of Massiva, because through his very close friendship he had the greatest opportunity of deceiving him. Iug. 61.4Ac prīmō efficit, utī ad sē conloquundī grātiā occultus veniat;And first he arranged for him to come to him secretly for a conference; Iug. 61.4deinde fidē datā, sī Iugurtham vīvom aut necātum sibi trādidisset, fore ut illī senātus inpūnitātem et sua omnia concēderet, facile Numidae persuādet, quom ingeniō īnfīdō tum metuentī, nē, sī pāx cum Rōmānīs fieret, ipse per condiciōnēs ad supplicium trāderētur.then, giving his word that, if he handed Jugurtha over to him alive or dead, the senate would grant him immunity and all his possessions, he easily persuaded the Numidian, who was both faithless by nature and afraid that, if peace were made with the Romans, he himself would be handed over for punishment under its terms.