1To this the king replied calmly, otherwise than he felt in his heart. 1After putting to death Bomilcar and many others whom he had found to be accomplices in the plot, he had suppressed his anger, so that no rebellion should arise from that affair. 2And from that time on, Jugurtha had no peaceful day or night: he trusted no place, no man and no moment sufficiently, feared citizen and enemy alike, looked about at everything and trembled at every noise, spent the night now in one place, now in another, often against royal dignity, and sometimes, roused from sleep, seized his arms and raised an alarm: so was he driven by fear, as if by madness.
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Bellum Iugurthinum 72
Jugurtha haunted by fear
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Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum. Latin text: the Perseus digital text of Sallust's Jugurthine War, with chapter 79 onwards in part from A. W. Ahlberg (Teubner, 1919), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.