This man won an election after the disaster at Arausio, even though he wasn't legally old enough tostand for office.
This man won an election after the disaster at Arausio, even though he wasn't legally old enough tostand for office. Early in this man's career, he served in the army of Scipio Aemilianus during the siegeof Numantia. He clashed with his patronQuintus Caecilius Metellus when Metellus wouldn't let thisman abandon the campaign against (*) Jugurtha to stand for the consulship of 108. After the Italianallies of Rome had been incited to seek enfranchisement by the tribune Livius Drusus, he took commandagainst them in the Social War. For 10 points, name this Roman statesman who died just seventeen daysinto his unprecedented seventh consulship, paving the way for the dictatorship of his formersubordinate Sulla.
This man won an election after the disaster at Arausio, even though he wasn't legally old enough tostand for office.
 Gaius Marius