Ea postquam Cirtae audita sunt, Italici, quorum virtute moenia defensabantur, confisi deditione facta propter magnitudinem populi Romani inviolatos sese fore, Adherbali suadent uti seque et oppidum Iugurthae tradat, tantum ab eo vitam paciscatur; de ceteris senatui curae fore.
After word of these developments reached Cirta, since the Italians, by whose valor the walls were being protected felt confident that in the event of a surrender they would escape injury because of the prestige of Rome, they urged Adherbal to hand over himself and the town to Jugurtha, to negotiate only a guarantee of his life. The senate, they assured him, would look after the rest.
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