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A native of Nursia, a Sabine village, one of the most extraordinary men in the later times of the republic. He served under Marius, and subsequently became quaestor.
In B. c. 83 he was made praetor, and the following year went to Spain and became the leader of the Lusitanians, and for several years resisted all the armies of Rome, though led by such generals as Metellus and Pompey.
Sertorius was murdered by his own officers in B. c. 72.