Sertorius, Quintus
Sertorius, Quintus (c.126–73 BC),an eques (see equites) from Sabine Nursia (Norcia), distinguished himself in the Cimbrian Wars under Quintus Servilius Caepio and Marius, and under Titus Didius in Spain. Quaestor in 91, then a senior officer in the Social War (91–89 BC: see Rome (history) §1.5), he was thwarted by Sulla in his candidacy for a tribunate (89 or 88) and joined Cinna. He shared responsibility for the capture of Rome (87) and subsequent executions, but ended the indiscriminate terror of Marius' slave-bands. He became praetor (probably) in 85; kept in Italy by Sulla's impending return, he criticized, unsuccessfully, the Cinno-Marian leaders for their conduct of the civil war and finally took command of Spain (winter 83/2). Proscribed and driven out (81), he went to Mauretania as a condottiere. Invited by the...
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