Itaque legatos alium ab alio divorsos adgreditur ac paulatim temptando, postquam opportunos sibi cognovit, multa pollicendo persuadet uti Iugurtham maxume vivom, sin id parum procedat, necatum sibi traderent.
Accordingly, he approached the envoys one after the other, separately, and by gradually sounding them out'after he found them suitable to his purposes'he tried to induce them by lavish promises to deliver Jugurtha into his hands, preferably alive, but if that proved unsuccessful, then dead.
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