uterentur, remorata sunt. Deinde Jugurtha postero die cum Aulo in
colloquio verba facit: 'tametsi ipsum cum exercitu fame et ferro clausum
tenet,[231] tamen se memorem humanarum rerum, si secum foedus faceret,
incolumes omnes sub jugum missurum,[232] praeterea uti diebus decem
Numidia decederet.' Quae quamquam gravia et flagitii plena erant, tamen,
quia mortis metu mutabantur,[233] sicuti regi libuerat, pax convenit.

[225] Respecting the frequentatives _ductare_ and _missitare_, which last
is a secondary derivative from _mittere_ (as _currere, cursare,
cursitare_), see Zumpt, S 231; and about _vitabundus_, S 248.
[226] The usual arrangement of the words would be: _corrumpere, ut alii
(partim) transfugerent, alii--desererent_. The _ut_ is here repeated
in the second clause, which is rather unusual.
[227] _Trepidare_, in its proper sense, is, 'to run about with fear and
trembling.'
[228] _Anceps_, 'twofold,' on the part of the enemy and of that of
nature.
[229] The author here distinguishes the infantry (_cohors_) and cavalry
(_turma_) of the auxiliaries, and the common soldiers from the Roman
legions.
[230] The _primus pilus_ in a Roman legion is the first company
(_manipulus_) of the third class of legionaries, who were called
_pilani_ or _triarii_, and were employed in battle as a reserve,
while the two other classes of legionaries, the _hastati_ and
_principes_, began the engagement. A legion thus contained ten
maniples of every class; that is, altogether thirty maniples, each of
which consisted of two _centuriae_, and each _centuria_ was commanded
by a _centurio_. Out of these sixty centurions of a legion, the two
commanding the _primus pilus_ (they themselves also were called, like
their companies, _primi pili_) were the first in rank, and again the