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100 BC (search for this): entry saturninus-appuleius-bio-3
opposition of his colleague. Saturninus vowed vengeance against Metellus, which he was soon able to gratify by the assistance of Marius, who was also a personal enemy of Metellus. He resolved to become a candidate for the tribunate for the year B. C. 100. At the same time Glaucia, who next to Saturninus was the greatest demagogue of the day, offered himself as a candidate for the praetorship, and Marius for the consulship. If they all three carried their elections, the power of the state, they honour, for in the same evening he was murdered by the emissaries of Glaucia and Saturninus ; and early the following morning before the forum was full, Saturninus was chosen to fill up the vacancy. As soon as he had entered upon his tribunate (B. C. 100), he brought forward an agrarian law for dividing the lands in Gaul, which had been lately occupied by the Cimbri, and added to the law a clause, that, if it was enacted by the people, the senate should swear obedience to it within five days. a
101 BC (search for this): entry saturninus-appuleius-bio-3
the tribunate for the year B. C. 100. At the same time Glaucia, who next to Saturninus was the greatest demagogue of the day, offered himself as a candidate for the praetorship, and Marius for the consulship. If they all three carried their elections, the power of the state, they thought, would be in their hands ; they might easily ruin Meteilus, and crush the aristocracy. But in the midst of these projects Saturninus was nearly ruined by a skilful movement of his enemies. In the course of B. C. 101, and before the comitia for the election of the magistrates for the ensuing year were held, the ambassadors of Mithridates appeared at Rome, bringing with them large sums of money for the purpose of bribing the leading senators. As soon as this became known to Saturninus, lie not only attacked the senators with the utmost vehemence, but heaped the greatest insults upon the ambassadors. Upon the latter complaining of this violation of the law of nations, the senate eagerly availed themselve
104 BC (search for this): entry saturninus-appuleius-bio-3
Saturni'nus, Appuleius 3. L. Appuleius Saturninus, the celebrated demagogue, was probably a grandson of the preceding. He possessed considerable powers of oratory, but was of a loose and dissolute character ; and he might probably have passed through life much like most other Roman nobles, had he not received an insult from the senate at the commencement of his public career, which rankled in his breast and made him a furious opponent of the aristocratical party. In his quaestorship, B. C. 104, he was stationed at Ostia, and as Rome was suffering at that time from a scarcity of corn, and the senate thought that Saturninus did not make sufficient exertions to supply the city, they superseded him and entrusted the provisioning of the capital to M. Scaurus Diod. Exc. xxxvi. p. 608, ed. Wess.; Cic. pro Sest. 17, de Harusp. Resp. 20). Saturninus forthwith threw himself into the foremost ranks of the democratical party, and entered into a close alltance with Marius and his friends. He soo
102 BC (search for this): entry saturninus-appuleius-bio-3
of corn, and the senate thought that Saturninus did not make sufficient exertions to supply the city, they superseded him and entrusted the provisioning of the capital to M. Scaurus Diod. Exc. xxxvi. p. 608, ed. Wess.; Cic. pro Sest. 17, de Harusp. Resp. 20). Saturninus forthwith threw himself into the foremost ranks of the democratical party, and entered into a close alltance with Marius and his friends. He soon acquired great popularity, and was elected tribune of the plebs for the year B. C. 102. We have scarcely any accounts of his conduct in his first tribunate; but he did enough to earn the hatred of the aristocracy, and accordingly Metellus Numidicus, who was at that time censor, endeavored to expel him from the senate on the ground of immorality, but was prevented from carrying his purpose into execution by the opposition of his colleague. Saturninus vowed vengeance against Metellus, which he was soon able to gratify by the assistance of Marius, who was also a personal enemy