by stratagem and artifice, and his genius so fruitful in finding new
expedients, even when his affairs were most desperate. We are told, that
Jugurtha ran distracted, as he was walking in the triumph; that after the
ceremony was ended, he was thrown into prison; and that the lictors were
so eager to seize his robe, that they rent it in several pieces, and tore
away the tips of his ears, to get the rich jewels with which they were
adorned. In this condition he was cast, quite naked, and in the utmost
terrors, into a deep dungeon, where he spent six days in struggling with
hunger and the fear of death, retaining a strong desire of life to his
last gasp; an end, continues Plutarch, worthy of his wicked deeds,
Jugurtha having been always of opinion, that the greatest crimes might be
committed to satiate his ambition; ingratitude, perfidy, black treachery,
and inhuman barbarity.

Juba, king of Mauritania, reflected so much honour on polite literature
and the sciences, that I could not, without impropriety, omit him in the
history of the family of Masinissa, to whom his father, who also was named
Juba, was great grandson, and grandson of Gulussa. The elder Juba
signalized himself in the war between Caesar and Pompey, by his inviolable
attachment to the party of the latter.(M153) He slew himself after the
battle of Thapsus, in which his forces and those of Scipio were entirely
defeated. Juba, his son, then a child, was delivered up to the conqueror,
and was one of the most conspicuous ornaments of his triumph. It appears
from history, that a noble education was bestowed upon Juba in Rome, where
he imbibed such a variety of knowledge, as afterwards equalled him to the
most learned among(M154) the Grecians. He did not leave that city till he
went to take possession of his father's dominions. Augustus restored them
to him, when, by the death of Mark Antony, the provinces of the empire
were absolutely at his disposal. Juba, by the lenity of his government,
gained the hearts of all his subjects; who, out of a grateful sense of the
felicity they had enjoyed during his reign, ranked him in the number of
their gods. Pausanias speaks of a statue which the Athenians erected in
his honour. It was, indeed just, that a city, which had been consecrated
in all ages to the Muses, should give public testimonies of its esteem for
a king who made so bright a figure among the learned. Suidas ascribes(953)
several works to this prince, of which only