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| | Saturninus, pars I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Back in 109 BCE Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus was Consul, commanding the legions in the Numidian campaign, and doing a rather poor job of it. |
 | | The issues were land for veterans, citizenship for the Italians, the Senatorial Party resorting to different means including murder to thwart the decisions of the Comitia, and the Senate's usurpation of authority to bypass the laws with arbitrary edicts that controverted the laws. |
 | | But as a preview, the two praetors in 63 BCE when the trial takes place are Q Caecilius Metellus Celer, grand-nephew of Q Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, and G. Julius Caesar, born the year Saturninus was killed, the nephew of Marius and son-in-law of Cinna. |
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