87-86; the Sullan in 82-81.
(7) The head of Antonius was struck off and brought to Marius at supper.

He was the grandfather of the triumvir.
(8) Scaevola, it would appear, was put to death after Marius the elder died, by the younger Marius.

He was Pontifex Maximus, and slain by the altar of Vesta.
(9) B.C.86, Marius and Cinna were Consuls.

Marius died seventeen days afterwards, in the seventieth year of his age.
(10) The Battle of Sacriportus was fought between Marius the younger and the Sullan army in B.C.82.

Marius was defeated with great loss, and fled to Praeneste, a town which afterwards submitted to Sulla, who put all the inhabitants to death (line 216).