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CARBIDE , in See also:

chemistry, a See also:compound of See also:carbon with another 3. GNAEUS PAPIRIUS See also:CARBO (c. 130-82 B.C.), See also:nephew of M. See also:element. The introduction of the electric See also:furnace into See also:practical He was a strong supporter of the Marian party, and took See also:part in the See also:blockade of See also:Rome (87). In 85 he was chosen by See also:Cinna as his colleague in the consulship, and extensive preparations were made for carrying on See also:war in See also:Greece against See also:Sulla, who had announced his intention of returning to See also:Italy. Cinna and Carbo declared themselves consuls for the following See also:year, and large bodies of troops were transported across the Adriatic; but when Cinna was murdered by his own soldiers, who refused to engage in See also:civil war, Carbo was obliged to bring them back. In 82 Carbo, then See also:consul for the third See also:time with the younger See also:Marius, fought an indecisive engagement with Sulla near See also:Clusium, but was defeated with See also:great loss in an attack on the See also:camp of Sulla's See also:general, Q. See also:Caecilius See also:Metellus See also:Pius [see under METELLUS (6)] near Faventia. Although he still had a large See also:army and the See also:Samnites remained faithful to him, Carbo was so disheartened by his failure to relieve See also:Praeneste, where the younger Marius had taken See also:refuge, that he decided to leave Italy. He first fled to See also:Africa, thence to the See also:island of Cossyra (Pentellaria), where he was arrested, taken in chains before See also:Pompey at Lilybaeum and put to See also:death. See See also:Appian, See also:Bell. Civ. i.

67-98; See also:

Livy, Epit. 79, 84, 88, 89; See also:Plutarch, Pompey, 5, 6, lo, and Sulla, 28; See also:Cicero, ad See also:Fan,. ix. 21; See also:Eutropius, v. 8, 9; See also:Orosius, v. 20; See also:Valerius See also:Maximus, v. 3. 5, ix. 13. 2; See also:art. SULLA, L. See also:CORNELIUS.

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