Marius · lost
Marius
Headnote
Marius, a hexameter poem on Gaius Marius, Cicero’s fellow-Arpinate. Date uncertain; most placed in the mid-50s BC, after Cicero’s return from exile. The work is lost except for thirteen lines preserved by Cicero himself at De Divinatione 1.106 (the eagle-and-snake omen) and a few further fragments. The page that follows is an editorial note, not a translation.
What's known
Epic poem on Cicero's fellow-Arpinate Gaius Marius, of uncertain date but generally placed in the mid-50s BC. Survives only in a handful of lines quoted by Cicero himself in De Divinatione 1.106 (the eagle omen). Stub anchor for crossref resolution.