Igitur Iugurtha oppidum circumsedit, vineis turribusque et machinis omnium generum expugnare adgreditur, maxume festinans tempus legatorum antecapere, quos ante proelium factum ab Adherbale Romam missos audiverat.
Jugurtha thereupon invested the town and set about storming it by mantlets, towers and engines of all kinds, making all haste to take action in advance of the time needed by the envoys, who, as he had heard, had been sent to Rome by Adherbal before the battle had occurred.
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