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Jugurtha
[joo-gur-thuh]
noun
died 104 b.c., king of Numidia 113–104.
Jugurtha
/ ːˈɡɜːθə /
noun
died 104 bc , king of Numidia (?112–104), who waged war against the Romans (the Jugurthine War, 112–105) and was defeated and executed
Other Word Forms
- Jugurthine adjective
Example Sentences
He is survived by his wife, Djamila; two sons, Jugurtha and Salah-Eddine; and a daughter, Bushra.
Hiempsal II. was the son of Gauda, the half-brother of Jugurtha.
Here Jugurtha, king of Mauritania, was starved to death by Marius.
Jugurtha referred to the cold and dark prison into which he was plunged as into an icy bath.
Longfellow in his little poem "Jugurtha," has substituted, it is hard to say by what authority, the name of Apollo for that of Heracles: How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
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