Consulem autem C. Marium Praenestinae obsidionis miserabilem exitum sortitum, cuniculi latebris frustra evadere conatum, levique vulnere a Telesino, cum quo commori destinaverat, perstrictum servus suus, ut Sullanae crudelitatis expertem faceret, gladio traiectum interemit, cum magna praemia sibi proposita videret si eum victoribus tradidisset.
It was Consul C. Marius fortune to be part of the pitiable outcome of the siege of Praeneste. He tried in vain to escape by hiding in a sewer and was lightly wounded by Telesinus, with whom he had determined to die. Then a slave of his ran him through with a sword and killed him to make him safe from Sullas cruelty, though he saw that great rewards awaited him if he surrendered his master to the victors.
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