This person made a politically important marriage to Marcus Aemilius Scauru
This person made a politically important marriage to Marcus Aemilius Scaurus's widow after he had led a successful invasion of Cimbri.  Fond of strangling people, he had the quaestor Granius strangled in his presence the day before he died.  After manipulating Bocchus of Mauretania into capturing a famous enemy of Rome, he served as propraetor of Cilicia and was eventually named consul.  Among the governmental reforms he initiated were significantly increasing the number of quaestiones perpetuae and setting one-year term limits for proconsuls.  After a successful war against Mithridates, Publius Rufus overruled the Senate and denied him power, acting in collaboration with Marius and his Populares.  A victor over the Samnites in the Social War and the capturer of Jugurtha, FTP, identify this leader of the aristocratic Optimates who served as Roman dictator from 82 to 79 BCE before quietly retiring to private life.
This person made a politically important marriage to Marcus Aemilius Scaurus's widow after he had led a successful invasion of Cimbri.  