another twenty years. He went, however, and was elected in 107, being
the first plebeian chosen to that office for more than a century.

Metellus was recalled, enjoyed a triumph, and received the agnomen of
NUMIDICUS.

Marius was every inch a soldier. He saw that the Roman legions must be
reorganized and better disciplined. He enlisted men who had no other
occupation, that they might become professional soldiers. Some men of
rank who had a taste for war also went with him. Among these was a
young patrician, CORNELIUS SULLA. With this army Marius soon wrested
from Jugurtha all his strongholds. In less than two years the war was
over. By his ally, Bocchus, King of Mauritania, Jugurtha was betrayed
(106) into the hands of Sulla, who was acting as the Quaestor of
Marius.

The western portion of Numidia was given to Bocchus as the reward of
his treachery, while the remainder continued to be governed by native
princes, until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. In 104 Marius
returned home, and entered Rome in triumph. Jugurtha was thrown into a
dungeon, and there starved to death.




CHAPTER XXIII.

THE CIMBRI AND TEUTONES.--POLITICAL QUARRELS.