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5.5 And finally, there were the slaves whom Marius had used as allies during the war and as body-guards of his tyranny. They had thus become powerful and rich, partly by the permission and under the orders of Marius, and partly through their lawless and violent treatment of their masters, whom they would slay, and then lie with their masters’ wives, and outrage their masters’ children. Such a state of things Sertorius felt to be unendurable, and therefore when the slaves were all encamped together he had them shot down with javelins, and they were as many as four thousand in number.Cf. the Marius, xliv. 6.
6.1 But presently Marius died;In 86 B.C. and shortly afterwards Cinna was murdered;In 84 B.C. Cf. the Pompey, chapter v. and the younger Marius, against the wishes of Sertorius and contrary to the laws, assumed the consulship;In 82 B.C. and such men as Carbo, Norbanus, and Scipio were unsuccessfully opposing Sulla’s advance upon Rome; and the cause of the popular party was being ruined and lost, partly through the cowardice and weakness of its generals, and partly by treachery;

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