THE SOCIAL OR MARSIC WAR, 91-88 B.C. (2)
[A.] Defeat and Death of Rutilius.
Hanc tibi, ‘Quo properas’, memorant dixisse ‘Rutili?
Luce mea Marso consul ab hoste cades.’
Exitus accessit verbis, flumenque Toleni
Purpureum mixtis sanguine fluxit aquis.
Ovid, Fasti, vi. 563-566.
563 Hanc, sc. Leucothea, goddess of the sea and of harbours.
Rutili. Rutilius, consul 90 B.C., defeated and slain at the R. Tolenus (Turano) by the Marsian Vettius Scato.