Many Mariuses

Everyone has heard of Caesar. Everyone who has read Poul Anderson's Psychotechnc History has heard of Marius. The opening story of this future history series is entitled "Marius," its point being that the Roman Marius had been a great general but a disastrous politician. (I know that there are always opposing views of politicians! - but here I am going with what one of Anderson's characters tells us.) 

At one stage, Julius Caesar had to hide in a different place every night from the secret police of the dictator, Sulla, who, when he at last gave way to the eminent men who had pleaded Caesar's case, warned them:

"'There are many Mariuses in this fellow Caesar.'"

-Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars (London, 2007), p. 1.

As another point of interest, one woman, Julia, was the wife of Marius and an aunt of Caesar.

While we live, we learn.