Iug. 91.1Cēterum in itinere cottīdiē pecus exercituī per centuriās, item turmās aequāliter distribuerat et, ex coriīs utrēs utī fierent, cūrābat;On the march, moreover, he had distributed cattle to the army every day equally by centuries and likewise by squadrons, and saw to it that water-skins were made from the hides; Iug. 91.1simul inopiam frūmentī lēnīre et ignārīs omnibus parāre quae mox ūsuī forent.at once he relieved the shortage of grain and prepared, while no one knew of it, what would soon be needed. Iug. 91.1Dēnique sextō diē, quom ad flūmen ventum est, maxuma vīs utrium effecta.At last on the sixth day, when they came to the river, a very great quantity of water-skins had been made. Iug. 91.2Ibi castrīs levī mūnīmentō positīs mīlitēs cibum capere atque, utī simul cum occāsū sōlis ēgrederentur, parātōs esse iubet, omnibus sarcinīs abiectīs aquā modo sēque et iūmenta onerāre.There, having pitched a camp with light fortifications, he orders the soldiers to take food and to be ready to march out at sunset, and, throwing aside all their baggage, to load themselves and the pack animals with water alone.
Iug. 91.3Dein postquam tempus vīsum, castrīs ēgreditur, noctemque tōtam itinere factō cōnsēdit;Then, when the time seemed right, he leaves the camp, and after marching the whole night he halted; Iug. 91.3idem proxumā facit;he does the same the next night; Iug. 91.3dein tertiā multō ante lūcis adventum pervēnit in locum tumulōsum ab Capsā nōn amplius duum mīlium intervallō, ibique quam occultissumē potest cum omnibus cōpiīs opperītur.then on the third, long before dawn, he reaches hilly ground not more than two miles from Capsa, and there waits with all his forces as secretly as he can. Iug. 91.4Sed ubi diēs coepit et Numidae nihil hostīle metuentēs multī oppidō ēgressī, repente omnem equitātum et cum iīs vēlōcissumōs peditēs cursū tendere ad Capsam et portās obsidēre iubet;But when day began and many Numidians, fearing nothing hostile, had gone out of the town, he suddenly orders all the cavalry, and with them the swiftest foot soldiers, to make for Capsa at the run and to seize the gates; Iug. 91.4deinde ipse intentus properē sequī neque mīlitēs praedārī sinere.then he himself followed swiftly and alertly, and did not allow the soldiers to plunder.
Iug. 91.5Quae postquam oppidānī cognōvēre, rēs trepidae, metus ingēns, malum inprōvīsum, ad hoc pars cīvium extrā moenia in hostium potestāte coēgēre, utī dēditiōnem facerent.When the townspeople learned of this, the confusion, their great fear, the unexpected disaster, and moreover the fact that part of the citizens were outside the walls in the enemy's power, forced them to surrender. Iug. 91.6Cēterum oppidum incēnsum, Numidae pūberēs interfectī, aliī omnēs vēnundatī, praeda mīlitibus dīvīsa.Nevertheless the town was burned, the adult Numidians were killed, all the rest sold, and the booty divided among the soldiers. Iug. 91.7Id facinus contrā iūs bellī nōn avāritiā neque scelere cōnsulis admissum, sed quia locus Iugurthae opportūnus, nōbīs aditū difficilis, genus hominum mōbile, īnfīdum, ante neque beneficiō neque metū coercitum.This deed, contrary to the law of war, was committed not through the greed or wickedness of the consul, but because the place was useful to Jugurtha and hard of access for us, and the race of men fickle and faithless, controlled before neither by kindness nor by fear.