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Gaius Marius the Younger

110–82 BCE · 1st century BCE

Gaius Marius the Younger was a Roman politician, the son, probably by adoption, of the general Gaius Marius. Elected consul in 82 BCE at about 27 during the civil war against Sulla, he was defeated at Sacriportus and besieged in Praeneste, where he killed himself as the town fell.

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