Gaius Flavius Fimbria (cavalry prefect)
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Gaius Flavius Fimbria (cavalry prefect)
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Gaius Flavius Fimbria was a Roman general. Born to a recently distinguished senatorial family, he became one of the most violent and bloodthirsty partisans of the consul Cornelius Cinna and his ally, Gaius Marius, in the civil war of 87 BC. During the conflict, Fimbria served them as both cavalry commander and negotiator, and took a leading part in the political purges that followed their capture of Rome, putting a number of prominent aristocrats to death. In 85 BC, during an expedition to Asia
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Roman soldier and a violent partisan of Marius
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Flavius_Fimbria_(cavalry_prefect)
date created:
2005-03-25T13:41:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T08:17:30Z
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