{"id":48358,"date":"2019-03-15T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/conspiracy-for-life-of-gaius-marius\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:26:01","slug":"conspiracy-for-life-of-gaius-marius","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/conspiracy-for-life-of-gaius-marius\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy for life of Gaius Marius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/gajusz-mariusz\/\">Gaius Marius<\/a>, at the end of the second century BCE, was in practice the dominant figure on the political scene of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. The proof of this was repeated fulfillment of the consul&#8217;s function. Plutarch says that when he held the office for the seventh time in a row, the conspiracy for his life was plotted.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time he was supposed to be in the city of Minturnae, where his political opponents decided to kill him. However, to everyone&#8217;s surprise, no one of the local residents would take up the task. Finally, a barbarian who was then in the city was sent as a assassin &#8211; he was either a Gaul or a Cymbrian.<\/p>\n<p>When the assassin entered the room in which Marius was staying, despite the darkness, the Roman&#8217;s eyes seemed to hit fire and light up the room. At that time Marius was to say in a low voice: &#8220;Do you dare to kill <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-marius\/\">Gaius Marius<\/a>?&#8221; The barbarian was so shocked and afraid, that he dropped his sword and ran out of the room. Returning to the opponents, he announced &#8211; &#8220;I can not kill Marius&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36177,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[67],"class_list":["post-48358","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/48358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/48358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=48358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}