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In the Civil War, Usually called the Social War (ὁ συμμαχιὸς πόλεμος), 90-88 B.C. when he found himself surrounded by a trench and cut off by the enemy, he held out and bided his own time. Pompaedius Or possibly Poppaedius. Silo said to him, If you are a great general, Marius, come down and fight it out. Marius replied, If you are a great general, make me fight it out when I do not wish to do so ! Cf. Plutarch’s Life of C. Marius, chap. xxxiii. (424 D).
CATULUS LUTATIUS Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul 102 B.C. with C. Marius; general in the war against the Cimbri. The event here described happened in 101 B.C.
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Catulus Lutatius, in the Cimbrian War, was encamped beside the Atiso Presumably the same river which the Roman writers call the Athesis. River. The Romans, seeing the barbarians crossing to attack, retreated, and he, not being able to check them, made haste to put himself in the front rank of those who were running away so that they might not seem to flee from the enemy, but to be following their commander. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of C. Marius, chap. xxiii. (418 F).
SULLA L. Cornelius Sulla, 138-78 B.C.; the dictator.
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Sulla, who was called the Fortunate, counted two things among his greatest pieces of fortune: the friendship of Pius Metellus, and the fact that he had not razed Athens, but had spared the city. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Sulla, chap. vi. (454 D), chap. xiv. (460 E), and the Comparison of Lysander and Sulla, chap. v. (478 B).
GAIUS POPILIUS Consul 172 B.C.