Jugurthine WarNumidia · 112–105 BCE“Listen well: this telling travelled far to reach our circle.”Jugurtha of Numidia seized his grandfather's whole kingdom from his cousins, and when Rome objected he discovered Rome's price — bribing senators, commissions, even the verdicts on his own conduct, until summoned to Rome itself he left observing, the historian records, that it was a city for sale and doomed when it found a buyer.