SECOND CIVIL WAR, 83-82 B.C. (2)
[A.] Death of the Younger Marius.
Sulla Felix.
Tum demum desperatis rebus suis C. Marius adulescens per cuniculos, qui miro opere fabricati in diversas agrorum partes fuerunt, conatus erumpere, cum foramine e terra emersisset, a dispositis in id ipsum interemptus est. . . . De quo iuvene quid 5 existimaverit Sulla, in promptu est; occiso enim demum eo Felicis nomen adsumpsit, quod quidem usurpasset iustissime, si eundem et vincendi et vivendi finem habuisset.
Vell. Pat. ii. 27.
1 Tum, i.e. after Sulla’s victory at the Colline Gate, 82 B.C.
C. Marius. ‘He possessed his father’s martial spirit, courage and unyielding perseverance.’—Ihne.
2 per cuniculos = through subterranean passages.
[B.] The Sullan Proscriptions.
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