Metellus postquam videt frustra inceptum, neque oppidum capi neque Iugurtham nisi ex insidiis aut suo loco pugnam facere et iam aestatem exactam esse, ab Zama discedit et in eis urbibus quae ad se defecerant satisque munitae loco aut moenibus erant praesidia inponit.
After Metellus saw that his attempt was in vain, that the town was not being taken, and that Jugurtha was not offering to fight except from ambush or in a place advantageous to him, and that the summer was now at an end, he left Zama and placed garrisons in the cities that had gone over to him and were strongly enough fortified by their position or by walls.