Sallust Jugurthine War- chapter 5

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bellum scripturus sum quod populus Romanus c um Jugurtha rege Numidarum gessit, primum quia magnum et atrox variaque victoria fuit, dehinc quia tunc primum superbiae nobilitatis obuiam itum est;
the war i am going to write, which the Roman people waged with Jugurtha the king of the Numidians, first b/c it was great and fierce and with various victories, then b/c then first at that time the arrogance of the nobility was threatened;
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quae contentio divina et humana cuneta permiscuit eoque vecordiae processit ut studiis civilibus bellum atque vastitas Italiae finem faceret.
that conflict mixed through gods and humans, progressed to a place of madness so that war and the destruction of Italy would make an end of the passions between citezans.
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sed prius quam huisce modi rei initium expedio, pauca supra repetam, quo ad cognoscendum omnia inlustria magis magisque in aperto sint.
but before i give an account from the begining of the thing of this manner i shall fall back over a few things so that everything will be more clear and more out in the open to understand .
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Bello Punico secundo, quo dux Carthaginiensium Hannibal post magtitudinem nominis Romani Italiae opes maxume adtriuerat, (...)
the 2nd Punic war, in which Hannibal the leader of the Carthaginians after the greatness of a Ropman name, had depleted Italy's great resources
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Masinissa rex Numidarum in amicitiam receptus a P. Scipione, quoi postea Africano cognomen ex virtute fuit, multa et praeclara rei militaris facinora fecerat.
Masinissa, the king of the Numidians, having been received by Publius Scipio in friendship, for who afterwards was given the name Africanus on the grounds of his virtue , he had made many + brilliant deeds of mil. nature.
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ob quae victis Carthaginiensibus et capto Syphace, quoius in Africa magnum atque late imperium valuit, populus Romanus quascumque urbis et agros manu ceperat regi dono dedit.
having conquered the carthaginians + w. Syphax having been captured whose empire was broad and great in Africa, the people of Rome, whatever city + fields he seized with his hand, he gave a present to the king.
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igitur amicitia Masinissae bona atque honesta nobis permansit; sed imperi vitaeque eius finis idem fuit.
therefore Masinissa's friednship has stayed true and honest t us; but the end of command + life was the same.
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Dein Micipsa filius regnum solus obtinuit, Mastanable et Gulussa fratribus morbo absumptis.
then his son Micipsa alone held the kingdom, his brothers Manstabal + Gulussa were taken away by disease.
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is Adherbalem et Hiempsalem ex sese genuit Jugurthamque filium mastanabalis fratris, quem Masinissa, quod ortus ex concubina erat, privatum dereliquerat, eodem cultu quo liberos suos domi habuit.
Masinissa begat Ad + H from himself, he had left Jugurtha as a private person the son of his bro Mastanabal, b/c he had been born from a concubine, in the same status as the children who lived in his house.
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quae contentio divina et humana cuneta permiscuit eoque vecordiae processit ut studiis civilibus bellum atque vastitas Italiae finem faceret.

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that conflict mixed through gods and humans, progressed to a place of madness so that war and the destruction of Italy would make an end of the passions between citezans.

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Bello Punico secundo, quo dux Carthaginiensium Hannibal post magtitudinem nominis Romani Italiae opes maxume adtriuerat, (...)

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Masinissa rex Numidarum in amicitiam receptus a P. Scipione, quoi postea Africano cognomen ex virtute fuit, multa et praeclara rei militaris facinora fecerat.

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