Assuage thy feelings, good my lord, and wait
Till Marius or myself return to bring
The latest tidings of this haughty town.
Hold firm the ladder there! Ye righteous heavens!
O what a saddening spectacle and grim
Is offered to my sight! O strange event!
The smoking blood is bathing all the soil,
The square and streets are crowded with the dead!
I mean to leap within and see the whole.
[Jugurtha leaps into the city, and Quintus Fabius says: