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Battle of Colline Gate, 82 BCE

Livy, Epitome 87–89. Appian, Civil Wars 1.10.89–96. Plutarch, Sulla 32.

(1) Marius, Marīī fīlius: Gaius Marius the Younger was elected consul with Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, though he had not yet attained the legal age for the office (Hazzard).

dīmicāvit: In 82 BCE Sulla destroyed the younger Marius' army at Sacriportus and besieged him in Praeneste where Marius committed suicide (Bird).

XV mīlibus eius occīsīs CCCC dē suīs: ablative absolute using a perfect passive participle (AG 419). eius refers to the younger Marius, and suīs refers to Sulla's men.

ad mortem conpulit: "forced to commit suicide" (see Suet. Tib. 56.1)

Lamponium et Carīnātem ducēs: Marcus Lamponius and Gaius Carrinas, both supporters of Marius, fought against Sulla's forces at the Colline Gate. Carrinas was captured and executed while Lamponius escaped.

partis Mariānae: "the Marian faction" (LS pars II.A)

ad portam Collīnam: The Colline Gate was one of the gates of Rome on the Quirinal Hill. The battle raged so fiercely and the result was so long in doubt, that Sulla is said to have invoked the aid of Pythian Apollo. With this battle the resistance of the Marian party in Italy was at an end (Hazzard).

mīlia: supply militum

(2) ab Arīminō: modern Rimini

annōs ūnum et vīgintī nātum: Cn. Pompeius (Pompey) was twenty-four when he was sent by Sulla to Sicily where Carbo had fled. He quickly subdued the island and executed Carbo in 81 BCE (Bird).

traditīs exercitibus praefēcerat: "put in charge of the surrendered troops." praeficiō takes a dative object (AG 370)