![]() It was probably in the year 103, that the Cimbrians returned to Gaul from Spain, where they had encountered a stout resistance from theĬeltiberians. But his chief attractionįor his men was his strict justice and impartiality. To fail in his duty, never to be insubordinate, and his fear of Marius would be changed into confidence the man of terror would seem formidable only to his enemies. Once let a soldier under Marius be accustomed to his severity of mien, his rough voice and wild looks, once let him learn never Unremitting exertions made his troops once more fit for action. Spent some time restoring the disorganised and disintegrated Gallic peoples to a sense of their duty he raised auxiliary troops from the allied states and by dint of unswerving severity and When Marius with his force reached the Rhone, the Cimbrians, always hasty in their movements, had wandered off through southern Gaul towards the west and had entered Spain. Over Jugurtha, he entered upon his second consulate and the same office was conferred upon him every succeeding year until the Cimbrian danger was over. On the same day-January 1-on which Marius celebrated his triumph The rule to elect any one who was absent, or any one who had already been a consul at any time during the previous ten years. Whilst he was still in Africa he was chosen consul for the year 104, although it was against Marius, he who at the end of the Jugurthine War was regarded as the greatest general of his time. The senate and their generals had lost all confidence only one man seemed to be able to save the state in these perilous times-C. Several other men of distinction were tried at the same time. Of judicial inquiry was convened, on the instigation of several of the people’s tribunes, Cæpio narrowly escaped the death sentence. ![]() Property was confiscated by a second decision of the people he was driven from the senate, and when, long after, in consequence of the malversation and high treason practised in Gaul, a court By decision of the people he was now deposed from the proconsulate, and his Indignation was extreme, particularly against Cæpio, whose insubordination had been the main cause of the defeat. Besides panic, the people also felt a burning rage, particularly against the corrupt government of the nobility which had jeopardised the state. The earlier defeats had already so terrified the Italians that the raising of fresh soldiers presented difficulties but now, after the defeat of Arausio the “Cimbrian panic” reached its On the Roman side eighty thousand soldiersĪnd forty thousand men belonging to the commissariat are said to have been killed, only ten men being saved, amongst whom was Cæpio. The Romans suffered this terrible reverse near the town of Arausio (Orange). After this the CimbriansĮngaged in battle with the troop under Mallius and utterly defeated them. As a result his troops were entirely destroyed and his camp was taken. He was desirous of keeping all the honours of victory for himself, attacked them without delay. Cæpio, seeing the consul in negotiation with the delegates of the barbarians, and thinking that Meantime, the imposing forces of the Romans had induced the Cimbrians to enter into negotiations. ![]() Cæpio, who had a personal enmity against Mallius, and plumed himself on his superior birth, obeyed with reluctance, but could not bring himself to make common cause with Mallius against the enemy and discuss The Cimbrians, the consul ordered the proconsul to lead his force over the Rhone and unite with his own men. ![]() Aurelius Scaurus was attacked and completely defeated by When, however, a corps under the legate M. Mallius Maximus this occupied the right bank of the Rhone, the other force the left bank, both being drawn up toĪwait the enemy, without either section paying much attention to the movements of the other. Under the proconsul Cæpio, there was now a second force under the consul Cn. In the next year, 105, the Cimbrians again appeared in the province, under their king, Boiorix, this time with the serious intention of going on into Italy. ![]()
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