Gaius Marius the Younger and the Samnites

The campaign season of eighty-two opened with metellus Pius arriving with his army in North Italy, where he rendezvoused with Pompey. The newly elected consul, papyrus Carbo, led an army north to face them, while Gaius Marius the Younger built an army to face Sulla who would soon be marching on Rome itself. But as was the case throughout this Civil War, defections cost Marius too many men and he was forced to withdraw behind the walls of a local Allied city. Other than make a last stand, Carbo slipped out the back and fled, spending the next year hiding out in the small islands off the Sicilian coast