#lucius marius

[duxfemina]

If you were going to pin the BEGINNING of the downfall of the Roman Republic on the actions of one Roman

[violetbirdie]

Emperor's Children before the fall.

From Left to Right: Julius Kaesoron, Marius Vairosean, Lucius, Lord Commander Eidolon

[ohtobedevoured]

Oversimplifying relationships-

Marius and Sulla: Friends to lovers gone wrong

Pompey and Caesar: "I need head" taken too seriously

Antony and Octavian: Marriage was disaster, divorce was political calamity

[stcantarella]

all my haters become dictators when i get the mithradatic command of success

[mariussuggestions]

Lucius Cornelius, please focus on the meeting....yeah no need to lie I can tell you're thinking about gay sex and killing people again...no I'm not homophobic it's just....listen we can discuss theatre after this, see how inclusive I am?...I just think we should try winning this through voter fraud first....yes, I know you fucked his father...I'm not mad really I just don't understand what you see in him....it's not that I'm jealous... you know he's just objectively ugly and I don't get...yes, Rutilius Rufus, you can leave it's fine, I'm fine....Lucius Cornelius, it's just....wait, what do you mean you killed them both three hours ago?...then why are we having this meeting?...Oh.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

@elainesknight so we were talking about calendar in the Pharsalia book club server, at which point my mind conjured up an image of Sullarius orgy. Of course I must share it with you.

[elainesknight]

THEORY: Roman Republic died because of father issues

PROOF: Her last fathers were

Gaius Marius: Father of failson

L. Cornelius Sulla: A daddy not a father

He Who Speaks: Dolabella marriage, Octavian situation, Cicelina fic

Every man's WIFE: Self evident

CONCLUSION:

Cicero and Hortensius should have fucked nasty on the rostra. SPQR

[187o]

*don't cross the pomerium while armed*

Marius : Let me guess this sign can't stop you because you can't read ?

Sulla : I can, I just don't care

[ankharel]

Oc scribgles

[mafuyu-yuri]

i think there should be more marius x sulla e2l fanfic where their deep hatelove for each other prevents civil war

[teethingpains]

I'll ask, who is Marius getting pregnant :)

Armand if I have any say in it :3

[duxfemina]

Hey i really loved your replies to previous asks. Can you please rank the ancient romans from best to worst for enemies to lover trope:

Catiline, cicero, Julius, Pompeii, crassus , brutus, agrippa, octavian, sulla and Marius.

This is tricky because I'm not as up on some of the beef or maybe you meant these individually rather than paired with their neighbors in the list. So I'll go with individually rating how susceptible they would be to the trope

Catiline - yeah he was DTF anything so yeah I could see him developing homoerotic passions for Cicero had he survived

Cicero - no he just does the reverse. It's only lovers to enemies for MT Chickpea because he's a petty peapod

Julius Caesar - he probably fucked some Gauls let's be real. He absolutely is susceptible to the trope and would find himself involved in it several times throughout his life

Pompeius Magnus - yes, absolutely, the man was so magnanimous with the people he defeated he absolutely probably caught the feelings for one or two of them. Of course paragon of conjugal virtue that he was, he didn't sleep with anyone besides his wife when he was married so it might just be a lot of pining and eye fucking but there's probably a couple princesses of peoples he beat who he had the hots for and of course they'd reciprocate, he's the new Alexander after all

Crassus - on the one hand he has about as much romance and yearning to him as a wax tablet on the other he DID team up with his most loathed rival Pompeius so who knows maybe under that cold exterior he was secretly dreaming of running his hands through the much lauded quaff of Pompeius Magnus

Brutus - all of Pompeius' enemies eventually end up in bed with him... politically that is. If Brutus can get past Pompeius whacking his dad I feel he could get past whatever made him enemies with someone in order to make way for growing feelings for them

Agrippa - his enemies don't live long enough to become lovers usually. But if anyone was gonna be his war torn paramour I'd put bets on Sextus. There's just something a little homoerotic about their naval rivalry.

Octavian - I mean he did marry someone he had previously exiled so yes he's susceptible to the trope. If nothing else he likes using sex to exert dominance on people (hence his sleeping with the wives of his rivals) so yeah whether directly or by proxy Octavian is definitely fucking his enemies. Don't think he loves any of them (maybe not even Livia, he respected her and she filled the image he needed) but they're certainly lovers in the coarsest sense

Sulla - like Cicero this only goes one way and it's lovers to enemies. He fucks and then quite likely ends up hating.

Marius - there is no strategy to his love life so like it might happen but not as likely because he's pretty straightforward and to the point and isn't about any kind of pining or long game. The first impression is what he's going with

[agentsketchbook]

The Diamine family tree and concepts for Olivera Diamine herself

[stcantarella]

sulla to marius

[mariussuggestions]

If I had been at the Stabbening you know I would have consumed him. Sulla might have haunted his narrative but at the end it's still me slurpin

[garland-on-thy-brow]

When did Cicero and Atticus meet? Are they childhood friends or have they met later in life? Thought I'd ask a professional since Google is of no help.

Not being a professional or an expert on these two, sometimes I have to remind myself that they did not spontaneously spawn as an old gay couple, but -

In the number of [Atticus' fellow students] were Lucius Torquatus, Caius Marius the younger, and Marcus Cicero, whom he so attached to himself by his intercourse with them, that no one was ever more dear to them.

- Cornelius Nepos: Life of Atticus

Obligatory eyebrow raise on the word intercourse. Anyway, they studied together, and the other two mentioned here with them are also interesting. Marius the younger and L. Torquatus who is going to fight for Sulla very soon?! So these are the roots of Atticus' strategy of being friends with both sides?