Both consuls go to the northern front…

Both consuls go to the northern front in 89 BCE while Sulla takes sole command of the southern front.

One of the two consuls, Lucius Porcius Cato, elected Praetor in 92 BCE, had in 90 been given a propraetorial command, and defeated an Etruscan army that had joined the revolt.

Although his troops are undisciplined and mutiny at one point, he manages to inflict a defeat on the Marsi.

He dies at the Battle of Fucine Lake, probably killed by Marsic soldiers, or possibly at the hands of Gaius Marius the Younger, who was furious that Cato had boasted that his own achievements were on par with the elder Marius’s victory over the Cimbri.