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When Jugurtha, however, after being thus despoiled of arms, men and money, was summoned to appear in person at Tisidium,LXII. Was summoned to appear in person at Tisidium, etc.] Cùm ipse ad imperandum Tisidium vocaretur. The gerund is used, as grammarians say, in a passive sense. "The town of Tisidium is nowhere else mentioned. Strabo (xvii. 3, p. 488, Ed. Tauch.) speaks of a place named Τισιαιοὶ, which was utterly destroyed, and not a vestige of it left."Gerlach to await the consul's commands, he began again to change his mind, dreading, from a consciousness of guilt, the punishment due to his crimes. Having spent several days in hesitation, sometimes, from disgust at his ill success, believing any thing better than war, and sometimes considering with himself how grievous would be the fall from sovereignty to slavery, he at last determined, notwithstanding that he had lost so many and so valuable means of resistance, to commence hostilities anew.
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At Rome, meanwhile, the senate, having been consulted about the provinces, had decreed Numidia to Metellus.