Pro S. Roscio Amerino

130 CICERO : PRO Koscro.
Delos, -i, f. : a sniall island in the Aegean Sea, one of tho Cyclades,
lying in the niiddle of tho group. It was celebrated for its bronze,
which resenibled that of Corinth.
F.
Fannius, -i, m. : Marcus Fannius presided as praetor (SO B.c.) over
the quaestio inter sicarios by which Roscius was tried. He had
some time befote ptesided as iudex quatationis over a special comraiss
on to try a case of niurder.
Fimbria, -ae, m. : Gaius
Flavius Fimbria, a deniagogue of low birth,
took a proniincnt part in the massacreof the Optimates in 87 b.c. by
Marius. In 86 he was made legate of L. Valerius Flaccus, when
the latter was dispatched by Cinna to the East to supersede ISulla in
the command against Mithradates. In 85 Fimbria headed a
he then assumed command of
mutiny in which Flaccus lost his life ;
the troops. In 84 Fimbiia's soldiers deserted to Sulla, who had
by this time arranged terms of peace with Mithradates ; Fimbria
himself fled to Pergamum, and there committed suicide.
Furiae, -arum, f. : three goddesses of vengeance (Allecto, Megaera,
and 'Jisiphone) who were supposed to pursue and punish murderers
of near relatives.
M.
Marius, -i, m. : Gaius Marius, the great soldier, was born at
Arpinum in 157 b.c. He distinguished himself greatly at the siege
of Numantia, in Spain (134 b.c), conquered Jugurtha, king of
Numidia (105), and by a victory over the Teutones at Aquae
Sextiae (102) in his fourth consulate, and by anothcr over tlie
Cimbri at Vercellae in his fiflh, in the foUowing year, saved Italy
from being overrun by barbarian hordes. In 100 he was consul
again, and had to crush by force of arms the outbreak of the
deraagogues Saturninus and Glaucia, by whose aid he had beconie
consul. He served in the Social war (90-S8). but the command
in the Mithradatic war (88) was given to his rival Sulla, who
drove him into temporary exile. In the absence of Sulla in tiio
East, Marius retumed, joiiied Cinna, who meanwhile had led the
demoeratic imrty, effected an etitry into Rome (87), and massacred
his opponents. He proclaimed himself and Cinna consuls
for the ensuing year, but died on the eighteenth day of this,
his seventh consulsliip.
Metellus, -i, m. : (1) Quintus Ca-cilius Metellus was consul in
123 b.C. ; he conquered and colonised the Balearic Islands, and so
won the surname of Balearicus. (2) Quintus Caecilius Metellus
Nepos was cont.ul in 98, and was in that year one of the proposers
of the Lex Caecilia Didia.