DECLINE IN ROMAN MILITARY
READINESS AT THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY BC
King Jugurtha
of
Germanic Invasions 105 BC
Pirate War 102 BC
Slave Rebellion 102 BC
Mamilian Commission 111 BC; Q. Caecilius
Metellus Numidicus, cos.
109
C. Marius, cos. 107 BC, Novus
Homo; cos. 104 BC – 100 BC
Numantine War in Spain 136-130 BC – Scipio Aemilianus,
C. Gracchus, Jugurtha of Numidia, Rutilius
Rufus, C. Marius
Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, cos. 109 BC; P. Rutilius
Rufus. Cos. 105
C. Marius, cos. 107-105 BC
L. Cornelius Sulla, quaestor to Marius
Marius relected
in 104 BC – 100 BC
Cohortal legionary system.
C.
Marius 107, 104-100 BC
L.
Appuleius Saturninus, tr, pl. 103, 101-100; L. Glaucia
Q.
Metellus Numidicus; L. Memmius killed by Glaucia
Marius
receives SCU; 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
95
BC. cos. Q. Mucius Scaevola, province of Asia, Rutilius
Rufus as his legate; 24 and 48% compounded; prosecuted for extortion in
Marius'
embassy, King Mithradates VI of
91
BC, M. Livius Drusus, tr. pl. 91 BC, pork barrel;
wants 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 offers citizenship to all Italians who 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, gives the command of the Mithradatic
War to C. Marius. "anti-Senate";
first civil War