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 | | He subsequently went over to the optimates, and (when consul in I 20) successfully defended Lucius Opimius, the murderer of Gaius Gracchus, when he was impeached for the murder of citizens without a trial, and even went so far as to say that Gracchus had been justly slain. |
 | | His son, GAIUS PAPIRrus CARBO, surnamed Arvina, was a staunch supporter of the aristocracy, and was put to death by the Marian party in 82. |
 | | In 82 Carbo, then consul for the third time with the younger Marius, fought an indecisive engagement with Sulla near Clusium, but was defeated with great loss in an attack on the camp of Sullas general, Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius METELLUS (6)] near Faventia. |
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