Rex primo negitare: cognationem, adfinitatem, praeterea foedus intervenisse; ad hoc metuere ne fluxa fide usus popularium animos avorteret, quis et Iugurtha carus et Romani invisi erant.
At first the king kept refusing, saying that ties of kinship and marriage, as well as a treaty, stood in the way; moreover, that he feared that if he broke faith, he would alienate the sympathy of his subjects to whom Jugurtha was dear and the Romans hateful.
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