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had indeavoured to demolifh, after they heard of 
his death j he imployed all his forces in that work, 
who difpleafed with the labour revolted and flew 
him (i). His death reflored to Viffiorinus , what he 
had loft by that of Pojlumus , for he was acknow- 
ledged by all the Gauls. But he was foon after taken 
off by a private confpiracy, for an intrigue with the 
wife of a notary or clerk (2). His fon alfo was killed 
with him, whom he had created Caefar , tho but an 
infant (3). 
The army foon fixed on a fucceflor, and imagining 
they fhould find better treatment from an inferior 
officer, with whom they had been more familiar, 
chofe one Marius , an armorer by trade, who had 
raifed himfelf among them, and was greatly admired 
for his intrepidity and bodily ftrength, qualities of 
the higheft efteem with the vulgar. But Marius , 
thus advanced to the imperial dignity, immediately . 
behaved with that cruelty and infolence, that one of 
his old freinds, trained up in his bufinefs, and after- 
wards his companion in the army, refenting his arro- 
gant behaviour towards him after his advancement, 
flabbed him privately, with this opprobrious infult : 
Hie ejl gladius, quem ipfe fecijli (4). His government 
was very fhort ; Aurelius Victor (f ) and Eutropius (6) 
make it no longer than two days, but Trebellius 
R 2 Pollio 
(1) Treb. Pollio , in Lolliano. 
(2) Aurel. Victor , De Caefar. c. 33. 
(3) Treb. Pollio , in Victorino. 
(4) Idem , in Mario. 
(5) De Caefar. c. 33. 
(6) Lib. ix. c. 7. 
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