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Gaius Marius (cos. 82)

Son of Marius and cousin of Caesar

🏛️ Career

  1. 82 BCE
    (aged 28)
    Consul · Co-consul: Cn. Papirius Carbo

    Broughton: Marius, elected Consul at the age of 26, was routed by Sulla at Sacriportus, and besieged for a long time in Praeneste, where, after attempts to relieve him proved unsuccessful, he met his death while trying to escape (a). Carbo, when checked in Picenum by Metellus and Pompey, turned to face Sulla in Etruria, but met reverses here too. He failed to relieve his Legate Carrinas in Spoletium, lost Cisalpine Gaul, and was unable to relieve Marius at Praeneste; so he deserted his army and took refuge in Africa (b). He then moved to join Perperna in Sicily, but was captured and put to death1 by Pompey (c).

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Leg. Agr. 3.6-7 and 11; Phil. 8.7; 13.1; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 130, 484f.; Val. Max. 7.6.4; Vell. 2.26. 1, and 27. 1; Plin. NH 7.158 and 165; App. BC 1.87, and 98; Eutrop. 5.8; Chr. 354 (Gratilliano et Carbo III); Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Augustin. CD 3.28; Cassiod.; and on Carbo, Val. Max. 7.6.4; 9.7.3, and 13.2.
      • (a) Cic. Rosc. Amer. 90; Sall. Hist. 1.35, and 36 M; Diod. 37.29.4; 38.12-15; Jacoby, FGrH 2 B. 115 1, no. 252; Liv. Per. 86-88; Strabo 5.3.11, 239c; Vell. 2.26-27; Val. Max. 6.8.2; Fenestella fr. 16 Peter; Plin. NH 33.16; Plut. Mar. 46.5-6; Sull. 28.4-29.8; 32.1; Sert. 6.1; Brut. 29.4; App. BC 1.87-94; Flor. 2.9.21-25; Dio 30-35 fr. 108.1-2; Eutrop. 5.8.1; Auct. Vir. Ill. 68; 75.8-9; Iul. Exup. 5: and 8; Ampel. 42.2; Oros. 5.20.6, and 21.8-10
      • (b) Sall. Hist. 1.38 M; Liv. Per. 88; Val. Max. 6.2.10; Plin. NE 8.221; Plut. Sull. 28.8; 29.4; Pomp. 7.3; 8.4-6; Sert. 6.1; cf. 22.3; Brut. 29.4; App. BC 1.87-93; Flor. 2.9.21; Eutrop. 5.8.2; Auct. Vir. Ill. 75.8; Iul. Exup. 5, and 8; Ampel. 42; Augustin. CD 3.28; Oros. 5.20.5 and 7, and 21.3
      • (c) Cic. Fam. 9.21.3; Att. 9.14.2; Sall. Ad Caes. 1.4; Hist. 1.52 M; Liv. Per. 89; Val. Max. 5.3.5; 6.2.8; 9.13.2; Lucan 2.548, and Schol. Bern. p. 83U; Plut. Pomp. 10.1-4; App. BC 1.96; Flor. 2.9.26; Eutrop. 5.8.2, and 9.1; Oros. 5.21.11, and 24.16; Schol. Groib. 320 Stangl
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Papirius Carbo (1 year; raw 4.00, base 1.333, final 1.333): 82 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Sulla Felix (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 82 BCE (Dictator)

    C. Carrinas (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 82 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Junius Brutus Damasippus (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 82 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Perperna Vento Sicily (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 82 BCE (Praetor)

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