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FIMBRIA, GAIUS FLAVIUS (d. 84 B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 347 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FIMBRIA, GAIUS FLAVIUS (d. 84 B.C.) , Roman soldier and a violent partisan of Marius. He was sent to
Asia
  in 86 B.C. as legate to L. Valerius Flaccus, but quarrelled with him and was dismissed. Taking advantage of the
absence
  of Flaccus at
Chalcedon
  and the discontent aroused by his avarice and severity,
Fimbria
  stirred up a revolt and slew Flaccus at
Nicomedia
 . He then assumed the command of the army and obtained several successes against
Mithradates
 , whom he shut up in Pitane on the
coast
  of Aeolis, and would undoubtedly have captured him had Lucullus co-operated with the
fleet
 .
Fimbria
  treated most cruelly all the
people
  of
Asia
  who had revolted from Rome or sided with Sulla. Having gained admission to Ilium by declaring that, as a Roman, he was friendly, he massacred the inhabitants and burnt the place to the ground. But in 84 Sulla crossed over from
Greece
  to Asia, made peace with
Mithradates
 , and turned his arms against Fimbria, who, seeing that there was no chance of escape, committed suicide. His troops were made to serve in Asia till the end of the third Mithradatic War.
See RoME: History; and arts. on SULLA and MARIUS.


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