The Jugurthine War

The Bellum Jugurthinum (in English, The Jugurthine War) is the second of two historical monographs written by the Latin historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 - 34 B.C.), after De Catilinae coniuratione. The work, divided into 114 chapters and thus longer than the previous monograph, narrates the ups and downs of the war waged by the Romans against the king of Numidia, Jugurtha, between 111 and 105 B.C., and concluded with the victory of the Roman consul Gaius Marius. Through the narration of events that are nonetheless of great historical interest, Sallust is concerned to address the moral and social decadence that led to the collapse of the Roman res publica and the rise of the Empire. Features