‘By the great victories of Aquae Sextiae and of Vercellae (over the Cimbri, 101 B.C.), the movement of the German races southward was for the present stopped. Rome was saved, and the saviour of Rome was Marius, the champion of the people.’—Ihne.
Parallel Passages. Propert. IV. iii. 41-44; Livy Ep. lxviii.
References. Plutarch, Marius, 15. Ihne, Hist. Rome, vol. v. pp. 98-105.
MARIUS, 157-86 B.C.
[A.] His Flight from Sulla: Consul for the 7th time.
Atque aliquis magno quaerens exempla timori,
‘Non alios,’ inquit, ‘motus tum fata parabant,
Cum post Teutonicos victor Libycosque triumphos
Exsul limosa Marius caput abdidit ulva.