Quinto Sertorio: 100-98 a.C. Triennium sine armis?

Abstract

About the activities of Quintus Sertorius, we have, especially, three dark moments. The youth, his share at the events of Cinnae dominatio and the triennium that is the purpose of this study. I have a increasing interest in the manofacturing of hypothesis that we help us to attain a better understanding of the place of Sertorius in the last years of the Roman Republic. One should not forget that Sertorius had served with C. Marius in the war against the germans tribes; his attaching to the lands of the north of ltaly, a military service filled with a singular splendour and others merits, was enought to open him the narrow soor of the cursus honorum: at the end of 98 B.C., Sertorius was elected tribunus militum by the consular Titus Didius.