After obtaining the consulship of 107 BC, he broke with tradition by recruiting volunteers from the unpropertied classes for the ongoing war against Jugurtha.
After obtaining the consulship of 107 BC, he broke with tradition by recruiting volunteers from the unpropertied classes for the ongoing war against Jugurtha. Popular among the equestrian class and his veterans, he managed to obtain the consulship for five years in a row from 104-100 B.C. This euphoric success however was short lived, and he fled east in 99 B.C. FTP, identify the Roman leader, consul seven times, and arch-rival of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
After obtaining the consulship of 107 BC, he broke with tradition by recruiting volunteers from the unpropertied classes for the ongoing war against Jugurtha.
Gaius Marius