In the south, young Marius gathers a large host of Samnites who assuredly would lose influence with the anti-popular Sulla in charge of Rome.
Marius meets Sulla at Sacriportus and the two forces engage in a long and desperate battle.
In the end, many of Marius' men switch sides over to Sulla and he has no choice but to retreat with around seven thousand surviving troops, along with the treasury of the Capitoline temple, to …
