The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . so far as danger to the existence, or JUGURTHA. Ill to the constitutional or territorial integrity of Rome, theJugurthine war had been a severe and galling thorn in herside, from its commencement ; it had seriously shaken theprestige of invincibility which had so long clung to the armsof Rome ; it had demonstrated the infamy of many of hersenators, the imbecility of some of her generals, the undis-ciplined and mutinous spirit of more than one of her armies ;and it had sorely aggrieved her haughty pride, that a pettychieftain
The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . so far as danger to the existence, or JUGURTHA. Ill to the constitutional or territorial integrity of Rome, theJugurthine war had been a severe and galling thorn in herside, from its commencement ; it had seriously shaken theprestige of invincibility which had so long clung to the armsof Rome ; it had demonstrated the infamy of many of hersenators, the imbecility of some of her generals, the undis-ciplined and mutinous spirit of more than one of her armies ;and it had sorely aggrieved her haughty pride, that a pettychieftain of wild desert horse should have held her armies atbay, and subjected them to disgraces which they had neverendured from the gigantic strength of Carthage, theunequalled science of Hannibal. Great, therefore, was the rejoicing when it was known atRome, that the war was concluded, as by a thunder-stroke,and that he who had so long eluded the vengeance andmocked the majesty of Rome, was now but a chained culprit,awaiting her not questionable mercy.—H. W.
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