Marius
historical figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Gaius Marius · Marius the Roman
in the texts
Protrepticus
Roman general said to have sacrificed his own daughter to the Averting Powers.
Erechtheus the Athenian and Marius the Roman sacrificed their own daughters;
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman general credited with the canal from the Rhone that generated toll revenue for Marseilles.
In the same manner, as Strabo informs us in his fourth book, the people of Marseilles derived great wealth from the canal which Marius had made from the Rhone to the sea, by exacting tribute of all that sailed upon it to and from with vessels.
Consolation to Helvia
Roman general who led a colony of Roman citizens to settle the island of Seneca's exile.
Then two colonies of Roman citizens were led out, one by Marius, the other by Sulla;
Letters to Lucilius
Roman general whose civil-war disaster ruined many noble Romans; also built a villa at Baiae
By the disaster of Marius fortune cast down many men of most splendid birth, who through military service were entering on the senatorial career, and made one of them a shepherd, another the keeper of a hut;
Those too to whom Fortune first transferred the public wealth of the Roman people — Gaius Marius and Gnaeus Pompeius and Caesar — did indeed build villas in the region of Baiae, but they set them on the highest ridges of the mountains.
On Anger
Roman general associated with civil-war violence, cited as an example of historical events provoking vicarious emotion.
who is not roused against the arms of Marius, against the proscription of Sulla?
On the Shortness of Life
Roman general and statesman, cited as an example of one whose military discharge only led to further public busyness through the consulship.
Has the soldier’s boot discharged Marius?