Note 1116 — BOOK XXXIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.647 (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
In allusion to the plebeian origin of C. Marius, who was born at the village of Cereatæ, near Arpinum. It is more than probable that the story that he had worked as a common peasant for wages, was an invention of the faction of Sylla.