Quae postquam gloriosa modo neque belli patrandi cognovit, statuit urbis quae viris aut loco pro hostibus et advorsum se opportunissumae erant singulas circumvenire; ita Iugurtham aut praesidiis nudatum <iri>, si ea pateretur, aut proelio certaturum.
But after Marius realized that such exploits merely brought him glory and did not tend to finish the war, he decided to invest one at a time cities that by reason of their population or location were most serviceable to the enemy and most detrimental to his own success. He thought that in that way Jugurtha would either be stripped of his defenses, if he made no opposition, or would stand and fight in a pitched battle
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