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Iugurtha (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Iugurtha African campaign of the following year, when he was praetor, we find him more successful: he captured some of the enemy's stores at Cercina and brought much-needed supplies to Caesar's camp'. At the end of the campaign he was left governor of Numidiaz. Here he appears to have got his wealth, it is alleged, by extortion3. We really know no more of his life beyond his own statement that he retired from political life. Probably the death of Caesar occasioned this act. We know that his house and grounds on the Quirinal hill5 at Rome were palatial: the Roman emperors afterwards owned them, and his heir was able to imitate Maecenas both in luxury and in intimacy with Au gustus. Here, no doubt, he wrote his works and enjoyed his 'precious leisure7.' Jeromes says he married Cicero's divorced wife Terentia, but he seems to have had no children living at his death and made his sister's grandson his heir. He died in 35, four years before the battle of Actium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date NZ
April 26th, 2018
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
12 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
244
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x13
ISBN-13
9781331902645
Product ID
24113626

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