Background: a gigantic alliance of proto viking gaullic barbarians has slaughtered 100k+ Romans in successive battles. They were threatening to descend on Rome called the third father of Rome, Gaius Marius. He fucked them up in two separate battles, starting with the teutones. This is after the first and before the second battle

From plutarch

"Having said what was suitable to the occasion, Marius set out to join Catulus, whom he tried to encourage, while at the same time he summoned his own soldiers from Gaul. When these had come, he crossed the Po and tried to keep the Barbarians out of the part of Italy lying this side of the river. But the Barbarians declined battle, alleging that they were waiting for their brethren the Teutones and wondered why they were so long in coming; this was either because they were really ignorant of their destruction, or because they wished to have the appearance of disbelieving it. 2For they terribly mishandled those who brought tidings of it, and sent to Marius demanding territory for themselves and their brethren and enough cities for them to dwell in. When Marius asked their ambassadors whom they meant by their brethren, they said they meant the Teutones. ****At this, all the other Romans who heard them burst out laughing, and Marius scoffingly said: “Then don’t trouble yourselves about your brethren, for they have land, and they will have it forever—land which we have given them.”*****

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Also note: sulla was a flamboyant gay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5631740&forum_id=2...id.#48327447)

Also, sweetly sodomizing a beautiful catamite is as far from gay as you can get

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5631740&forum_id=2...id.#48327640)

“Truly,” said Marius with a smile, “they are here, and it will not be right for you to go away before you have embraced your brethren.” Saying this, he ordered the kings of the Teutones to be produced in chains and dressed in tattered rags

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This is at least a tie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5631740&forum_id=2...id.#48328149)

Sulla has great one liners and theres like a 25% chance that trump's second term mirrors sulla's second March on Rome (including proscriptions). So I get the appeal

But marius was a 7 time consult and 100x the general. Plus I like a rags to riches story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5631740&forum_id=2...id.#48328272)

marius: one son, killed by sulla

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5631740&forum_id=2...id.#48328218)