Terrebat eum natura mortalium avida imperi et praeceps ad explendam animi cupidinem, praeterea opportunitas suae liberorumque aetatis, quae etiam mediocris viros spe praedae transvorsos agit; ad hoc studia Numidarum in Iugurtham adcensa, ex quibus, si talem virum dolis interfecisset, ne qua seditio aut bellum oriretur anxius erat.
He was frightened by human nature which is greedy for power and eager to gratify the hearts desire; besides, his own advanced years and the youthfulness of his sons presented an opening which could drive even average men from the straight and narrow out of hope for spoils; on top of this, there was the Numidians passionate support for Jugurtha from which, he worried, some rebellion or war might erupt, if he killed such a man by treachery.
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