Marius

Family: Roman · Role: military leader · First appears: Histories II.36-40

Life events

• Marius and Sulla crushed Roman liberty by force and established despotism.(Histories II.36-40 · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Sulla
  • “Then came Pompey, whose aims, though less patent, were no better than theirs. From that time onwards the one end sought was supreme power in the state.”

Histories II.36-40

• enemies with Sulla “Marius, rising from the lowest ranks of the people, and Sulla, the most cruel of all the nobles, crushed our liberty by force of arms and substituted a despotism.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.