[104] _Fatigare_, 'to importune a person with prayers.' See note chap. 3.
[105] _Quodutinam_ connects this sentence in an animated manner with the
preceding, otherwise _utinam_ alone might be used. 'Yes, would that I
could but see Jugurtha feigning these very things.'
[106] _Nae ille--reddat_; as far as the sense is concerned, this sentence
forms the apodosis to the preceding wish: 'would that I could see
him in like circumstances, and would that at length the gods opened
their eyes; then he would surely have to pay a heavy penalty for
his impiety, for the death of my brother and for my sufferings.'
The present subjunctive in the apodosis corresponds with the same
tense in the protasis, and differs very little from the future
indicative. See Zumpt, S 524, note.
[107] 'Although life has been taken from thee before the age of maturity,
and by a person who should have done it least of all.' _Unde_,
the more general relative, is here used for _a quo homine_. In like
manner the Romans, in legal phraseology, called the defendant
_unde petitur_; that is, the person of whom payment is demanded.
[108] _Doleo_, 'I grieve at,' is construed with _de_, as _de casu tuo_,
with the ablative alone, _casu tuo_, and also as a transitive verb
with the accusative, _doleo casum tuum_. _Laetari_ here follows the
construction of _doleo_, for it is generally followed by _de_, or the
ablative alone. See Zumpt, S 383.
[109] Namely, the life and death of the persecuted Adherbal depends
upon the power of Jugurtha.
[110] Adherbal wishes two things: first, that a speedy death may
terminate his misfortunes; and second, not to be obliged to live in
contempt, if he should yield to Jugurtha. But neither of these
things, says he, can be done. Jugurtha will continue to lay snares
for him, and if he yields, and gives up to him his kingdom, he must
live despised. These two wishes are here uttered to move the hearts