At Iugurtha, ubi extremum agmen Metelli primos suos praetergressum videt, praesidio quasi duum milium peditum montem occupat, qua Metellus descenderat, ne forte cedentibus advorsariis receptui ac post munimento foret.
As soon as Jugurtha saw that the rear of Metellus line of march had passed by the first of his own men, he seized the mountain with a contingent of roughly two thousand infantry at the point from which the Romans had just come, so that in case his opponents gave ground, it might not serve as a refuge and protection in their rear.
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