Eo tempore Iugurtha per collis sequi, tempus aut locum pugnae quaerere qua venturum hostem audierat; pabulum et aquarum fontis, quorum penuria erat, conrumpere; modo se Metello, interdum Mario ostendere; postremos in agmine temptare ac statim in collis regredi; rursus aliis, post aliis minitari, neque proelium facere neque otium pati, tantummodo hostem ab incepto retinere.
At that time Jugurtha was following through the hills; he kept watching for a suitable time or place for battle along the route where he had heard the enemy would come; he contaminated the fodder and the springs, which were very few; he showed himself now to Metellus, at times to Marius; made an attempt on the rear of the line of march and at once retreated into the hills; again he threatened now these, later those; he neither gave battle nor permitted rest to the enemy, but merely prevented them from carrying out their aim.
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