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  Gaius Marius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marius was born in 157 BC in the town of Arpinum in southern Latium.
The facts that Marius had connections with the nobility in Rome, that he ran for local office in Arpinum and that he had marriage relations with the local nobility in Arpinum all combine to indicate that he was born into a locally important family of equestrian status.
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 Gaius Marius - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Gaius Marius was born in B.C. 157, at the village of Cereatae (modern Casamare)
Marius cut off the pipes which supplied the capitol with water, and obliged the, conspirators to surrender at discretion; and though he made some efforts to save their lives, they were put to death immediately they had descended into the forum.
Marius was now quite alone amid the swamps and marshes through which the Liris flows, and with difficulty waded through them to the hut of an old man, who concealed him in a hole near the river, and covered him with reeds.
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 Gaius Marius the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marius was born in Rome between 110-108 BC.
His father Gaius Marius was seven times consul, a General and Roman Revolutionist, and his mother Julia was a parental aunt to Gaius Julius Caesar.
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus Asiagenus and Gaius Norbanus
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 Gaius Marius biography
Marius was declared the savior of the state, the third founder of Rome, and his name was mentioned along with those of the gods at banquets.
Marius was soon forced to flee, and after enduring the greatest hardships, and making numerous hairbreadth escapes, he reached Africa, where he remained until a rising of his friends took place under Cinna (q.v.).
Marius was delirious in his revenge upon the aristocracy; a band of 4000 slaves is said to have carried on the work of murder for five days and nights.
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Marius was intrinsic in 157 BC in the township of Arpinum in southern Latium.
The dope that Marius had connections with the nobility in Rome, that he ran for provincial duty in Arpinum & that he had confederation kinswomans with the provincial nobility in Arpinum perfect interface to manifest that he was intrinsic into a locally mattering relativity of equestrian status.
Marius was a extraordinary Roman uneventful & being of a reformer.
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Marius was constitutional in 157 BC in the boonies of Arpinum in southern Latium.
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Marius was in Rome, und after seemly elected Consul for 101 BC und deferring their Triumph by the Teutoni, he marched north to entwine Catulus, whose decree was prorogued into 101.
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 The Life of Gaius Marius, First Man in Rome
"Gaius Marius, …a man of rustic birth, rough and uncouth, and austere in his life, as excellent a general as he was an evil influence in time of peace, a man of unbounded ambition, insatiable, without self-control, and always an element of unrest.
Marius' new legions prefigured Caesar's troops crossing the Rubicon, the later Praetorian Guard who made and broke Emperors, and the eventual empowerment of the Roman legions to choose and control the autocrats of state.
Marius altered the way that the pilum (the throwing spear of the common soldier) was fixed to the shaft; this caused the point to break off upon impact, which meant Rome's enemies could not return the spear against her legions.
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 Informat.io on Marius
Since eagles were considered sacred animals of Jupiter, the supreme god of the Romans, it was supposed to explain why Marius was elected for consulship 7 times in his later life.
In 120 BC Marius was returned as plebeian tribune for the following year.
Election in absentia was unusual enough, but at some time after 152 BC a law had been passed dictating a ten-year interval between Consulships, and there is even some evidence to indicate that by 135 BC a law prohibited second Consulships altogether.
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 Marius Did You Mean marius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
He was a novus homo ("new man", a man without senatorial forebears) from the Italian countryside who came to prominence in Rome through military competence, and whom the oligarchy had a hard time assimilating into the political system.
Although he seems to have had a break with the Metelli as a result of the laws he passed while tribune, the rupture was not permanent, since in 109 BC Q. Caecilius Metellus took Marius with him as his legate on his campaign against Jugurtha.
Then the forces of Sulla returned to Italy at Brundisium in 83 BC, and the son of Marius died after the defense of Praeneste, a city east of Rome.
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The Caesar Augustus of the Bible, also known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, whose decree taxing the world brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem where Christ was born, was born into the imperial family.
Marius was the adopted son of the consul Gaius Marius (157-86 BCE).
Pliny (his birth name was Publius Caecilius Secundus; his adoptive name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius) was born in Novum Comum and studied in Rome under Quintilian, where he was a brilliant student.
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