Quae quom multos dies noctisque aestuans agitaret, forte quidam Ligus, ex cohortibus auxiliariis miles gregarius, castris aquatum egressus, haud procul ab latere castelli quod avorsum proeliantibus erat animum advortit inter saxa repentis cocleas; quarum quom unam atque alteram, dein plures peteret, studio legundi paulatim prope ad summum montis egressus est.
While he was vacillating as he turned these matters over for many days and nights, by chance a Ligurian, a common soldier of the auxiliary cohorts, when he had left camp to fetch water noticed snails crawling among the rocks not far from the side of the fortress which was facing away from the battling. As he went after first one and then another of these creatures and then still more, in his eagerness to gather them he gradually emerged at almost the top of the hill.
final_alignments\Sallust_Jugurtha.json