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Gaius Marius

(157-87), seven times consul; gained his first consulship dishonourably, 3.79, 81.

conquered Jugurtha (107); saved Rome from the invading Cimbri (102) and Teutons (101); a military genius, 1.76.

cruel and selfish, he flooded the streets of Rome with her best blood in the civil war with Sulla.

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