Marius

Gaius Marius (Latin: C·MARIVS·C·F·C·N)¹ (157 BC - January 13, 86 BC) was a Roman general and politician elected Consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his dramatic reforms of Roman armies, authorizing recruitment of unlanded citizens and reorganizing the structure of the legions into separate cohorts.

External links

• Marius and Sulla
• The Life of Caius Marius
• "The Man Who Saved History" a narrative poem about the military exploits of Caius Marius by Michael J. Farrand.