DECLINE IN ROMAN MILITARY READINESS AT THE END OF THE
SECOND CENTURY BC
War with King Jugurtha
of
Mamilian Commission 111 BC
Germanic Invasions 105
-- 101
Cilician Piracy -- 139
BC - 67 BC
Slave Revolt 105-100 BC
Social War, Rebellion of
the Italian allies 90-82 BC
First Mithradatic War 89-84 BC
Q. Caecilius
Metellus Numidicus cos.,
109; C. Marius was his legate; P. Rutilius Rufus. Cos. 105
C. Marius, cos. 107, procos.
106-105 BC
(
104-100 BC, L. Cornelius
Sulla, quaestor to Marius in 106.
Marius reelected in 104 BC – 100 BC
Innovation in Cohortal
legionary system
L. Appuleius
Saturninus, tr, pl. 103, 101-100; L. Glaucia
Q. Metellus
Numidicus; L. Memmius
killed by Glaucia
Marius received Senatus Consultum Ultimum;
Vestiges of Scipionic faction: M. Antonius; Q. Lutatius
Catulus, C. Julius Caesar Strabo; Q. Mucius Scaevola the Augur,
Pontiff; P. Rutilius Rufus; L. Licinius
Crassus
90's BC - E. Gruen, Roman
Politics and the Criminal Courts (Harvard 1968)
95 BC. cos. Q. Mucius Scaevola, province of
Asia, Rutilius Rufus as his legate; 24 and 48%
compounded; prosecuted for extortion in Asia,
Marius' embassy, King Mithradates VI of
91 BC, M. Livius Drusus, tr. pl. 91 BC, pork barrel; wanted to offer
citizenship to the Italians;
90 outbreak of the
Social War; 89 BC, Mithradates invaded province of
Asia; King Nicomedes of
89 BC Senate offered
citizenship to all Italians who would submit to Roman rule; census of 86 BC
(Marian regime)
88 BC lex sempronia de provincibus, Mithradatic War, L.
Sulla
wins the election; P. Sulpicius Rufus tr. pl. 88 BC, gave the command of the Mithradatic War to C. Marius. "anti-Senate";
first civil War
dictator rei publicae constituendae -
discontent in the Greek
East, province of
M. Livius
Drusus tr. pl. 91 BC - citizenship for the Italian allies