26 - Marius 2: Third Founder of Rome
Cost of Glory
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The Battle of Aracio on the Rhone River
Marius was in africa and the war was still in full swing, when ugurtha was still very much at large. But all this time, marius's mind had never been too far from the roman domestic situation,. He had now made some powerful enemies in the senate. And unlike before when he was a nobody, they now recognized him as a genuine threat. It looked like it was going to be the worst defeat the romans had suffered since hannibal the carthaginian inflicted a massacre on them at canai some hundred and 15 years ago. Maybe even worse than that one, as many as 80 thousand dead are captured.
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