Minturnae

In every town along the route—in Tarentum and in Venusia, across the mountains and down onto the plains of Campania, in Capua and in Minturnae—the crowds turned out to cheer him.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Marius, arising and stripping himself, plunged into a puddle full of thick muddy water; and even there he could not escape their search, but was pulled out covered with mire, and carried away naked to Minturnae, and delivered to the magistrates.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Meanwhile the magistrates and councilors of Minturnae consulted together, and determined not to delay any longer, but immediately to kill Marius; and when none of their citizens durst undertake the business, a certain soldier, a Gaulish or Cimbrian horseman, (the story is told both ways,) went in with his sword drawn to him.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

When Marius and his company were now about twenty furlongs distant from Minturnae, a city in Italy, they espied a troop, of horse making up toward them with all speed, and by chance, also, at the same time, two ships under sail.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Marius, after a terrible ordeal in the town of Minturnae, succeeded with Young Marius and the others in reaching Africa, where after many adventures they sheltered among the veterans Marius had settled on Cercina.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

He would find the greatest painter of murals in all the peninsula and instruct him to trace the story of Gaius Marius in Minturnae through a series of magnificent pictures.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

"On whose authority do you presume to execute in the forum of Minturnae a man who has been consul of Rome six times — a hero?" asked the senior duumvir.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

He stood a full head higher than the few men of six feet Minturnae owned, and his thews were mighty, his strength of that breathtaking kind undamped by brilliance of intellect or oversensitivity of spirit — not surprising in one who had been six years old when he was taken after the battle of Vercellae and subjected ever since to the life of the enslaved barbarian.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Minturnae could not possibly make itself responsible for the death of a man who had been consul of Rome six times and saved Italy from the Germans.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Of course he had to do as he was told, that went without saying; but suddenly the sense of comfortable well-being he had enjoyed in Minturnae blew away in a lonely wind.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991