ille cum gravi Carthaginiensium bello premeretur ac vix tutelae imperii sui sufficeret, tamen Scipioni Aemiliano, quia nepos Africani erat, bonam magnamque partem Numidici exercitus, quam <ad> Lucullum consulem, a quo ad auxilia petenda missus fuerat, in Hispaniam duceret, promptissima mente tradidit, praesentique periculo respectum pristini beneficii anteposuit.
Hard pressed by a major war with the Carthaginians and scarcely equal to the protection of his own power, he nonetheless very readily handed over to Scipio Aemilianus, because he was Africanus grandson, a good large part of the Numidian army to be conducted by him to Consul Lucullus, by whom he had been sent to ask for reinforcements, in Spain; thus placing regard for a former benefaction above present jeopardy.
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