... military man. However, when considering all the underlying evidence, it seems that Marius used war as a means to gain political power. His real devotion was to become powerful in the Roman political scene rather than becoming successful in the military. However, Marius was not born into a noble family and hence did not have much access to politics in Rome, so gaining ... and proscribed his political opponents. Now that he had supreme power over Rome, he enacted a series of reforms to put control of the state firmly in the hands of a larger Senate. He arranged that the number of senators...

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