Quorum Iugurtha accepta oratione respondit sibi neque maius quicquam neque carius auctoritate senatus esse; ab adulescentia ita se enisum ut ab optumo quoque probaretur; virtute, non malitia P. Scipioni summo viro placuisse; ob easdem artis a Micipsa, non penuria liberorum in regnum adoptatum esse
When Jugurtha heard their message, he replied that nothing was more important or more dear to his heart than the will of the senate; that from youth up, he had striven to win the approval of all the best men; that it was by merit, and not by wickedness that he had found favor with the great Publius Scipio; that it was for the same qualities that Micipsa had made him an heir to a part of his kingdom, not because the king lacked children.
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