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Roman general and statesman (c. 157–86 BC)

This article is about the Roman statesman who was seven times consul and supposedly reformed the army. For his son, see Gaius Marius the Younger.

Gaius Marius (Latin:[ˈɡaːiʊsˈmariʊs]; c. 157 BC – 13 January 86 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.

Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times. Rising from a family of smallholders in a village called Ceraetae in the district of Arpinum, Marius acquired his initial military experience serving with Scipio Aemilianus at the Siege of Numantia in 134 BC.

He won election as tribune of the plebs in 119 BC and passed a law limiting aristocratic interference in elections.

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Barely elected praetor in 115 BC, he next became the governor of Further Spain where he campaigned against bandits. On his return from Spain he married Julia, the aunt of Julius Caesar.

Marius attained his first consulship