1 LXXX. Sell--honorable or dishonorable] “Omnia honesta atque inhonesta vendere.” See Cat. c. 30. They had been bribed by Jugurtha to use their influence against Bocchus.
2 A daughter of Bocchus, too, was married to Jugurtha] “Jugurthœ filia Bocchi nupserat.” Several manuscripts and old editions have Boccho, making Bocchus the son-in-law of Jugurtha. But Plutarch (Vit. Mar. c. 10, Sull. c. 3) and Florus (iii. 1) agree in speaking of him as Jugurtha's father-in-law. Bocchus was doubtless an older man than Jugurtha, having a grown up son, Volux, c. 105. Castilioneus and Cortius, therefore, saw the necessity of reading Bocchi, and other editors have followed them, except Gerlach, "who,"' says Kritzius, " has given Bocchi in his larger, and Boccho in his smaller and more recent edition, in order that readers using both may have an opportunity of making a choice."
3 No one of them becomes a companion to him] “Nulla pro sociâ obtinet.” The use of obtinet absolutely, or with the word dependent on it understood, prevails chiefly among the later Latin writers. Livy, however, has fama obtinuit, xxi. 46. " The tyro is to be reminded," says Dietsch, " that obtinet is not the same as habetur, but is always for locum obtinet."
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