largely incompatible with Cicero's more reliable description of the events of 100 BC. Glaucia attempted that year to stand for the consulship and, if his candidacy had been accepted, would have won due to his immense popularity. But his candidacy was rejected by the presiding officer, almost certainly Marius in this case. Appian instead reports that Glaucia was in the process of losing that election to a competitor, Gaius Memmius; Appian claims that, to secure election, Glaucia had Memmius murdered during the comitia in full view of the people. Badian believes it more likely that, given Cicero's claims of Glaucia's popularity, Saturninus and Glaucia sought instead to pass a plebiscite to overturn Marius' decision and order acceptance of Glaucia's candidacy. After Saturninus had Memmius murdered, probably while fleeing a sudden riot disrupting the comitia, he took the Capitoline Hill and convened a popular assembly there to enact such legislation. At the instigation of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, then princeps senatus, the senate passed the senatus consultum ultimum; Marius raised a levy and then marched on the hill. Saturninus surrendered but was lynched by a mob after being confined in the senate house. Around the same time, Glaucia was possibly killed after being dragged from a certain Claudius' house. Alternatively, he may have been with Saturninus on the Capitoline where he was lynched shortly after Marius' forces took the hill. See also Servilia gens References Citations Modern sources Ancient sources Appian, Bell. civ. i. 28–32 Cicero, Verr., 2.1.26, Brut., 224, De oratore, ii.263, iii.164 Florus, Epit., 2.4.4 Orosius v. 17 Val. Max., iii.2.18 2nd-century BC births 100 BC deaths 2nd-century BC Romans 1st-century BC Romans Ancient Roman politicians Ancient Romans who committed suicide Populares Senators of the Roman Republic Glaucia, Gaius