person
Gaius Marius
Marius
The seven-times consul and conqueror of Jugurtha and the Cimbri, who in flight hid ignominiously in the marsh at Minturnae; an exemplum of Fortune's reversals.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.3 Marius lay in the mud
Gaius Marius, conqueror of Jugurtha and the Cimbri, who in flight hid in the marsh at Minturnae; a byword for the fall of the mighty.