He enlisted men who had no other occupation, that they might become professional soldiers.

Some men of rank who had a taste for war also went with him.

Among these was a young patrician, CORNELIUS SULLA.

With this army Marius soon wrested from Jugurtha all his strongholds.

In less than two years the war was over.
By his ally, Bocchus, King of Mauritania, Jugurtha was betrayed (106) into the hands of Sulla, who was acting as the Quaestor of Marius.
The western portion of Numidia was given to Bocchus as the reward of his treachery, while the remainder continued to be governed by native princes, until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.