Editing Jugurtha (section)

==Literary references==
[[File:The story of Rome, from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, told to boys and girls (1912) (14750047981).jpg|thumb|Jughurta's betrayal and capture by [[Bocchus I]] (c. 108 BC)]]
Jugurtha features in one of [[Arthur Rimbaud]]'s earliest surviving poems. Rimbaud was a French poet living in the mid- to late nineteenth century, his father a captain in the French army. The poem is a Latin ode to the Numidian king, contextualized to Rimbaud's modern context by having the ghost of Jugurtha, à la [[Hamlet]], appear to a baby [[Abdelkader al-Jazairi]] (who is unnamed in the poem) a hero of the Algerian struggle for independence against France.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=James |first1=J |title=Rimbaud's ode to Jugurtha |journal=Parnassus: Poetry in Review |date=2015 |volume=34 |page=197–198 |id={{ProQuest|1705726943}} }}</ref> The poem opens:

{{quote|<poem>A prodigious child was born in the Arabian hills
And a light breeze said: "He is Jugurtha's heir."
A few days had passed when there arose from the infant
Who would be the Jugurtha of the Arab people and nation,
Above the child, astonishing his parents,
The shade of Jugurtha himself,
Telling the story of his life and making a prediction:<ref> Rimbaud, Jean Nicholas Arthur. ''Jugurtha'', 1869. </ref></poem>}}