Gaius Marius and, 81–82, 84–86, 108–111, 113, 117–118, 129–131, 135–137, 140–141, 148–150, 176–178, 189–190, 193–195, 209–213
Italians in, 131
leadership, 109–111, 129, 190, 193
Marius the Younger and, 239
Norbanus and, 231–233, 240
novus homo and, 81–82, 84–86
Numidia and, xi, 88, 94–95, 103–113, 117–119, 122–124
Octavius and, 210
peasant armies, 48, 107
Metellus Pius and, 183, 207–208, 230, 232, 239–240
plague and, 210
Pompeius Magnus and, 177, 264
Pompeius Strabo and, 177–180, 205, 207, 210, 220
poverty and service in, 20, 21, 114
recruits from client-patron networks, 26
reforms, 135–137
in Rome, 197–202, 210–213
Sertorius and, 210, 232–235
slaves in, 114, 133, 150–151, 180, 196
Sulla and, 114, 116–119, 122–123, 131, 136, 149, 180–181, 185, 189, 193–197, 200–202, 205–209, 217–220, 235–242
mines, state-owned, 51
Minturnae, 199–201
Mithridates I (King of Pontus), 185
Mithridates V (King of Pontus), 49, 65, 147, 175, 183, 186
Mithridates VI (King of Pontus)
in Asia, 188–189, 202, 208, 218–219
Cappadocia and, xiii, 190
debt cancellation and, 189
defeat of, 264
early years, 185–186
Gaius Marius and, xii, 186–188, 214–215
in Greece, 208
with massacre of Italians, 202
Nicomedes IV and, 188
Rome and, 147, 183
Sulla and, xiv, 219–220
with Tigranes I, xii, 187
mob tactics, 147–148, 154, 157–158
monarchy, 8
mos maiorum (“the way of the elders”)
break from, 27, 30–31, 34–37, 64, 113, 127, 136, 152, 194, 197
defined, 4, 128
Pomerium and, 197
Sulla and, 194, 197
Mucianus, Publius Licinius Crassus, 24–25, 48–49
mules, 135
Mummius, Lucius
consulship of, 13
in Corinth, ix, 1–2, 14
as quaestor, 10–11
triumph of, 11–12
murders
of Antonius, 212
of Asellio, 182
of Cinna (cos. 87–84), 223
of Drusus the Younger, xii, 171
of Gaius Memmius, 156
of Gaius Octavius, 212
of Julius Caesar, 264
of Nonius, 152
of Quintus Pompeius Rufus, 205
of Scaevola, 237–238
of Tiberius Gracchus, 35–37, 41, 60, 66, 75, 95
Narbo, x, 86
Nasica, Publius Scipio, 32, 35–36, 40, 48
navy, Greek, 189
Nearer Spain, 6, 47
Nerva, Publius Licinius, 132
New Man. See novus homo
Nicomedes III (King of Bithynia), xiii, 175, 186, 187
Nicomedes IV (King of Bithynia), 187, 188
nobile, 10, 12, 56, 60, 137
Nola, 206, 207
noncitizens
citizenship reform and, x, 61–63, 67, 71–72, 161–165, 178–179, 207–208, 225–226, 229, 255
foreign provincials as, 262
Italians as, 25, 43, 71, 162–165, 168, 229
population, 43
Roman citizenship for some, 178–179, 225–226
Nonius, xii, 152
Norbanus, Gaius
consulship of, 227–228
as governor of Sicily, 226
military and, 231–233, 240
proscriptions and, 247, 249
violence and, 138, 145
Noreia, x, 101–102, 106, 124, 141
North Africa
Bocchus and, 122
colonies, 72–73, 74, 199
famine in, 68
Masinissa and, 88
novus homo (New Man)
discrimination against, 10, 11, 13, 83, 92, 117, 125
military and, 81–82, 84–86
populare assault and, 106
Numa (King of Rome), 3
Numantia, fall of, ix, 40–41, 56, 63, 82, 88
Numantines, 22–23
Numidia (Algeria)
bribery and, 88, 90, 94, 102, 105
cavalry, 88, 107
Gaius Marius in, 108–111, 117–119, 122, 124
Opimius in, 89–90
political killings in, 93–94, 97
Quintus Caecilius Metellus (Numidicus) in, xi, 103–112, 117–118
Sallust on war in, 106
Scaurus in, 93, 94–95, 102
Sulla in, 118–119, 122–124
treasury, 89, 110
Numidicus, Metellus. See Metellus, Quintus Caecilius (Numidicus)
Octavius, Gnaeus
consulship of, 204–205, 206
military and, 210
murder of, 212
plebs urbana and, 206–207, 210
Octavius, Marcus, 29–31, 67
oligarchy
rise of, 8–10, 260
secret ballots to defy, 22
Opimius, Lucius
consulship of, 73–77
against Gaius Gracchus, 75–78
in Numidia, 89–90
sack of Fregellae and, x, 63
optimates, as political faction, 52, 79–80, 83, 106, 154, 169
Oracle at Delphi, 86, 121, 214
the Orator.
oratory, 169
Antonius and, 66
Crassus and, 83–84, 86, 120–121
Gracchi and, 28
theatrical, 60, 64–65
Orchomenus, xiii, 218
Ostia, 137, 199, 210
Palatine Hill, 76, 212
Parthian Empire, 175
Paterculus, Velleius
on dangerous precedents, 37
on fortunes of families, 174
on Cinna, 223
“path of honors.” See cursus honorum
patricians, 3, 4, 10
patrons. See client-patron networks
Paullus, Lucius Aemilius, 6–7
Pausanias, on madness, 14
peasants
with anarchy, 46
army, 48, 107
colonies and, 68
with Gaius Marius, 200
optimates and, 152
as tenant-farmers, 20–21
Pergamum, 33, 40, 46, 48, 49, 188
Perseus (King of Macedon), 6
Persian Empire, 175
Philip V (King of Macedon), 5–6
Philippus, Lucius Marcius, 134, 168–170, 173, 231
Phrygia, 49
Picenum, 179, 189, 234, 239, 255
Piraeus, 209, 214
Pius, Metellus.
Placenta, 210
plague
of locusts, 68
military and, 210
Plebeian Assembly, 3, 9, 264–265
plebeians
as clients, 4
Conflict of the Orders and, 3, 10
plebs urbana (residents of Rome)
Anti-Senate and, 192
citizenship reform and, 62, 226
conscription of, 114
food shortage and, 181
Gaius Marius and, 70, 87, 152, 157, 261
grain prices and, 68–69, 87, 153–154, 167–168