Many, when they saw Marius’s likeness, cried for joy, and Caesar was highly extolled as the one man, in the place of all others, who was a relation worthy of Marius. There being two factions in the city (Rome), one that of Sylla, which was very powerful, the other that of Marius (that Caesar belonged to), which was then broken and in a low condition, he undertook to revive Marius’ and to make it his own.Īnd to this end, whilst he was in the height of his repute with the people for the magnificent shows he gave as aedile, he ordered images of Marius and figures of Victory, with trophies in their hands, to be carried privately in the night and placed in the capitol. When he was made surveyor of the Appian Way, he disbursed, besides the public money, a great sum out of his private purse and when he was aedile, he provided such a number of gladiators, that he entertained the people with three hundred and twenty single combats, and by his great liberality and magnificence in theatrical shows, in processions, and public feastings, he threw into the shade all the attempts that had been made before him, and gained so much upon the people, that every one was eager to find out new offices and new honours for him in return for his munificence.
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