Marius and the War in Numidia

Marius took his newly minted soldiers to Africa and promptly delivered on his promise. After finding it was not as easy to bottle up Jigerta as he thought, Marius dispatched one of his lieutenants to a neighboring kingdom to convince the local king to betray the rebellious prince. The incident would mark the beginning of a rift between Marius and an officer named Lucius Cornelius Sulla. That rift would soon open up into a chasm, and the two men would stand for years on opposite sides of a bitter and often bloody conflict that presaged the civil wars of the following generation.