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Mar⋅i⋅us

[mair-ee-uhs, mar-]
–noun
Gaius, c155–86 b.c., Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
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Mar·i·us   (mâr'ē-əs, mār'-)   
Roman general and politician. Elected consul seven times, he reformed the military and lost a disastrous civil war (88) to his political rival Sulla.
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