[Footnote 55:  Possibly the modern Macellaro.]

[Sidenote:  FRAG.  XCII] [Sidenote:  B.C. 102 (a.u. 652)] 1. (Par.) After the defeat of the barbarians though many had fallen in battle some few were saved.  Whereupon Marius attempted to console these survivors and to make amends by restoring to them all the plunder at a nominal price, to prevent its being thought that he had bestowed favors gratuitously upon any one.  By this act Marius, who previously had been the darling of the populace alone because sprung from that class and raised to power by it, now won over even the nobles by whom he was hated, and was praised equally by all.  He received from a willing and harmonious people a reelection for the following year, to enable him to subdue his remaining foes. (Valesius, ib.)

2. (Par.) The Cimbri when they had once halted lost much of their spirit and consequently grew duller and weaker in both soul and body.  The reason was that in place of their former outdoor life they rested in houses, instead of their former cold plunges they used warm baths, whereas they were wont to eat raw meat they now filled themselves with richly spiced dishes and relishes of the country, and they saturated themselves, contrary to their custom, with wine and strong drink.  These practices extinguished all their fiery spirit and enervated their bodies, so that they could no longer bear toils or hardships or heat or cold or sleeplessness. (Valesius, ib.)

(BOOK 28, BOISSEVAIN.)

[Sidenote:  FRAG.  XCIII] [Sidenote:  B.C. 99 (a.u. 655)] 1. (Par.) The son of Metellus besought everybody to such an extent both in private and in public to let his father return from exile that he received the appellation Pius, i.e. dutiful. (Valesius, p. 638.)

2. (Par.) Furius had such enmity toward Metellus that when he was censor he took his horse away. (Valesius, ib.)

3.  Publius Furius,[56] indicted for his deeds committed in the tribuneship, was slain by the Romans in the Comitia itself.  He richly deserved to die, for he was a seditious person and after first joining Saturninus and Glaucia he veered about, deserted to the opposing faction, and joined its members; it was not proper, however, for him to perish in just this way.  And this action seemed to be on the whole justifiable. (Valesius, p. 637.)

[Footnote 56:  He was tribune of the plebs, B.C. 99.]

[Sidenote:  FRAG.  XCIV] 1.  For there were other factional leaders, but the greatest authority was possessed by Marcius[57] over one group, and by Quintus[58] over the other:  these men were eager for power, of insatiable ambition, and consequently greatly inclined toward strife.  Those qualities they possessed in common; but Drusus had the advantage of birth, and of wealth, which he lavishly expended upon those who at any time made demands upon him, while the other greatly surpassed him in audacity, daring, the anticipation of plots, and malignity suitable to the occasion.  Hence not unnaturally, since they supplemented each other partly by their likeness and partly by their differences, they created an extremely strong factional feeling which remained even after the death of both. (Valesius, p. 638.)