Postquam rex finem loquendi fecit, legati Iugurthae, largitione magis quam causa freti, paucis respondent: Hiempsalem ob saevitiam suam ab Numidis interfectum, Adherbalem ultro bellum inferentem, postquam superatus sit, queri quod iniuriam facere nequivisset; Iugurtham ab senatu petere ne se alium putarent ac Numantiae cognitus esset, neu verba inimici ante facta sua ponerent.
After the king had finished speaking, the envoys of Jugurtha, relying more upon bribery than upon the merits of their case, replied briefly. They declared that Hiempsal had been slain by the Numidians because of his ruthlessness; that Adherbal, who initiated war without provocation, after he had suffered defeat, was complaining because he had been unable to inflict injury; that Jugurtha begged the senate not to think him other than he had shown himself at Numantia, or to give more weight to the words of his enemy than to his own deeds.
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