Definitions for "Marius"
Gaius Marius, 157-86 BCE; soldier and politican; a skilled soldier, he worked in Spain ( Hispania) and gained wealth there; Marius served as quaestor, tribune, and, later, had his second consulship in 104; in 100 BCE, Marius was given power through a senatus consultum ultimum to fight against an uprising in the Roman republic led by L. Appuleius Saturninus and C. Servilius Glaucia; he later fought in the Social War; Sulla seized the city of Rome when it was supposed to be led by Marius, causing Marius to flee the city; he died in 86 BCE.
Successful Roman general during the last century b.c.e.; introduced the concept of using paid volunteers in his army rather than citizen conscripts; created military force with personal loyalties to commander. (p. 156)
Marius is a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson that was first published in the June 1957 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections The Horn of Time (1968) and The Psychotechnic League (1981). As a component of the Psychotechnic League future history, "Marius" takes place in the year 1964, six years after the initial nuclear exchanges of World War III. Although it is chronologically the first story in the Psychotechnic League sequence, "Marius" was one of the last to be written.
Marius is a lunar crater located on the Oceanus Procellarum. The surface to the west and north of this crater contains a large number of lunar domes spread across an area over a hundred kilometers in diameter. The nearest named crater feature is Reiner to the southwest.