+Jugurtha.+ ‘Having resisted the whole power of the great Republic for six years, having kept his ground against the best generals of the time, against a Metellus, a Marius, and a Sulla, he was deluded by treacherous promises of peace and betrayed by his own ally and father-in-law.’ --Ihne.
A. _Arpinum--Birthplace of Cicero and Marius._
Hic novus Arpinas, ignobilis et modo Romae 237 Municipalis eques, galeatum ponit ubique Praesidium attonitis et in omni monte laborat. . . . . . . . . . . . . Sed Roma parentem, 243 Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit. Arpinas alius Volscorum in monte solebat 245 Poscere mercedes alieno lassus aratro, Nodosam post haec frangebat vertice vitem, Si lentus pigra muniret castra dolabra; Hic tamen et Cimbros et summa pericula rerum Excipit et solus trepidantem protegit urbem. 250
[Linenotes: 239. +in omni monte+, i.e. in every part of Rome, on each of the seven hills. 244. +patrem patriae:+ under the Empire the title _pater patriae_ became a formal one, always accorded to the new Emperor. +libera+ = _while yet free_, emphatic. The State was no longer free when Augustus received this title, 2 B.C.--Duff. 247. +frangebat vertice vitem+ = _he had the vine-switch (rattan) broken on his head_, i.e. served as a common soldier. --D. 248. +dolabra+ = half-hatchet for cutting stakes, and half-pickaxe for digging the fossa. For +dolabra+, cf. _Dolabella_. 249. +Cimbros+, annihilated by Marius and Catulus near Vercellae, 101 B.C. 250. +Excipit+ = _faced_ (lit. _is ready to receive_); metaphor from field-sports. --D.]
B. _From a poem by Cicero on his fellow-townsman Marius._
Hic Iovis altisoni subito pinnata satelles Arboris e trunco serpentis saucia morsu Surrigit ipsa feris transfigens unguibus anguem Semianimum et varia graviter cervice micantem. 4 . . . . . . . Hanc ubi praepetibus pennis lapsuque volantem Conspexit Marius, divini numinis augur, Faustaque signa suae laudis reditusque notavit, Partibus intonuit caeli pater ipse sinistris: Sic aquilae clarum firmavit Iuppiter omen.
[Linenotes: 1. +Iovis pinnata satelles+, i.e. the Eagle. Cf. Pindar, _Pyth._ i. 6: εὕδει δ’ ἀνὰ σκάπτῳ (= σκήπτρῳ) Διὸς αἰετός, _and sleeps on the staff of Zeus his eagle_. 3. +Surrigit+ (= _surgit_) = _raises up_; very rare in this sense. The _v.l._ +Sūbigit+ (for _sŭbigit_) = _carries aloft_.]