Piggle-wiggle

He then used the legislative body called the Plebeian Assembly to pass a law stripping command of the war against Jugurtha of Numidia from Metellus Numidicus Piggle-wiggle; that same command was given to him instead.

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But Marius was not the commander-in-chief; this position had gone to the aristocrat Metellus (who would later call himself Metellus Numidicus to commemorate his war against Numidia, but whom Marius called by a far more derogatory name, Piggle-wiggle).

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“She's afraid they're going to grow up to look like her Uncle Piggle-wiggle.”

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There is the most peculiar rumor going around, incidentally — that Piggle-wiggle died as the result of being poisoned!

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As Metellus Numidicus Piggle-wiggle has been dead for some years now, and Catulus Caesar and Scipio Nasica and Scaurus Princeps Senatus are terribly involved in keeping the lex Licinia Mucia alive despite the trouble it has generated, no one is very interested in Gaius Marius — or who, or what might have happened in the past concerning him.

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The death of Piggle-wiggle was a milestone of sorts, you know.

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The Piglet refused, his tata Piggle-wiggle was burned, and his ashes put in a hideously ornate tomb, and all that was many moons ago.

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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus — he whom Marius, Sulla and Rutilius Rufus called Piggle-wiggle — had been assiduous before he went into exile in explaining to everyone he knew that in his opinion, the successful conclusion of the war in Africa against King Jugurtha was entirely due to Sulla, that Marius had claimed the credit unfairly.

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"Vale, Piggle-wiggle, Piggle-wiggle!" he howled, and raised his hands to clutch at the sullen sky.

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Metellus Numidicus thought for a moment, then said, "On the subject of names, I suppose you know that — that Italian always called me Piggle-wiggle?"

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