Plutarch's Lives

Jugurtha

Family: Numidian · Role: king · First appears: Caius Marius

Life events

  • Bocchus betrayed Jugurtha and delivered him alive into Sylla’s possession.(Caius Marius · 📍 Africa)
    • With: Bocchus Sylla
    • “at length he fixed upon his former treachery, and put Jugurtha alive into Sylla's possession.”
  • Bocchus surrendered Jugurtha into Lucius Cornelius Sylla’s hands.(Sylla)
    • With: Sylla Bocchus
    • “Bocchus, having both of them now in his power, was necessitated to betray one or other, and after long debate with himself, at last resolved on his first design, and gave up Jugurtha into the hands of Sylla.”

Caius Marius

  • enemies with Caius Marius “promising either to slay Jugurtha or take him alive.”
  • with Bocchus (interaction) “Bocchus was king of the more distant barbarians, and was father-in-law to Jugurtha”
  • enemies with Sylla “at length he fixed upon his former treachery, and put Jugurtha alive into Sylla's possession.”

Sylla

  • enemies with Bocchus “Bocchus had long hated and dreaded his son-in-law, Jugurtha”
  • younger kin: Bocchus “his son-in-law, Jugurtha”
  • enemies with Sylla “Bocchus delivering, and Sylla receiving, Jugurtha.”

Caius Gracchus

  • with Lucius Opimius (interaction) “when he was sent ambassador to Jugurtha, king of Numidia”

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