Of the LXIX. booke.
CNeus Apuleius Saturninus, by the helpe of C. Marius, and by occasion that A. Nonius his com∣petitour and concurrent was by his souldiours slaine, was by forcible meanes created Tribune of the commons, and bare the Tribuneship as violently as he gat it. And when he had proposed an Agrarie law and passed it by force, he arrested Metellus Numidicus to aunswere at a day, for that he had not subscribed & sworne to the said law: who being manteined and defended by the cittizens of the better sort, because he would give none occasion of unseemly debates and evill contentions, went in vo∣luntarie exile to Rhodes: and there he emploied his time in reading of bookes, and giving audience to great and famous men. After he was departed, C. Marius the chieftaine and authour of that sedition, who now had purchased a sixth Consullship by a largesse of money skambled amongst the tribes, proclai∣med him as excommunicate and enterdicted from fire and water like an outlaw. The same Apuleius Saturninus Tribune of the commons, slew C.* 1.1 Memmius in his white gowne standing to be Consul, for that he feared him above all others to crosse his proceedings: wherupon the Senat was exceedingly mo∣ved in the cause and behalf of C. Memmius: and when C. Marius a man by nature mutable, & in his counsaile variable, one who ever loved to be on the better side of the hedge and to band with the migh∣tier, was not able to beare him out and protect him, the said Saturninus together with Glaucia the Pre∣tour & other his complices in that outrage, was slain by one Rabirius. Q. Caecilius Metellus was recalled out of banishment with exceeding great love and favour of the whole citie. Manius Aquilius the Pro¦consull dispatched and ended the slaves-warre raised in Sicilie.