NORBANUS, GAIUS

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NORBANUS, GAIUS , surnamed BULBUS (or BALBUS), Roman politician, was a seditious and turbulent democrat. In 103' B.e,, when tribune of the

people

PEOPLE

, he accused Q. Servilius

Caepio

CAEPIO, QUINTUS SERVILIUS

of having brought about the defeat of his army by the

Cimbri

CIMBRI

through rashness, and also of having plundered the temple of Tolosa.

Caepio

CAEPIO, QUINTUS SERVILIUS

was condemned and went into

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

. About ten years later Norbanus himself was accused of treason on account of the disturbances that had taken place at the trial of Caepio, but the eloquence of M.

Antonius

ANTONIUS

; grandfather of the triumvir, procured his acquittal. In 8q Norbanus as praetor successfully defended Sicily against the Italian socii. During the civil war between Marius and Sulla he sided with the former, but was defeated by Sulla at

mount

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Tifata near

Capua

CAPUA (anc.
Casilinum
- CASILINUM (mod. Capua)
;, a town and archiepiscopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 7 M. W. by
rail
- RAIL
from the town oI Caserta. Pop. (1901) 14
CAPUA (mod. S. Maria di Capua Vetere)

, and again by Metellus at Faventia in Cisalpine Gaul (82). He fled to Rhodes, where he committed suicide, while the Rhodians were debating whether to hand him over to Sulla.
See Mommsen, Hist, of Rome, bk. iv. ch. v.; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome.

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