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NORBANUS, GAIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 738 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NORBANUS, See also:GAIUS , surnamed BULBUS (or See also:BALBUS), See also:Roman politician, was a seditious and turbulent democrat. In 103' B.e,, when See also:tribune of the See also:people, he accused Q. Servilius See also:Caepio of having brought about the defeat of his See also:army by the See also:Cimbri through rashness, and also of having plundered the See also:temple of Tolosa. Caepio was condemned and went into See also:exile. About ten years later Norbanus himself was accused of See also:treason on See also:account of the disturbances that had taken See also:place at the trial of Caepio, but the eloquence of M. See also:Antonius; grandfather of the triumvir, procured his acquittal. In 8q Norbanus as See also:praetor successfully defended See also:Sicily against the See also:Italian socii. During the See also:civil See also:war between See also:Marius and See also:Sulla he sided with the former, but was defeated by Sulla at See also:mount Tifata near See also:Capua, and again by See also:Metellus at Faventia in Cisalpine See also:Gaul (82). He fled to See also:Rhodes, where he committed See also:suicide, while the Rhodians were debating whether to See also:hand him over to Sulla. See See also:Mommsen, Hist, of See also:Rome, bk. iv. ch. v.; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome.

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