The personal rivalry between Marius and Sulla had begun before the Cimbric war.

[Sidenote: Frontier wars of Rome previous to the Cimbric invasion.]

[Sidenote: Story of the Cimbric embassy to Marius.]

But the spell of the Cimbric victories was potent still, and the captains replied that they would not give up Marius.

CHERSONE`SUS (i. e. continent island), a name which the Greeks gave to several peninsulas, viz., the Tauric C., the Crimea, the Thracian C., Gallipoli; the Cimbric C., Jutland; the Golden C., the Malay Peninsula. CHERTSEY (11), a very old town of Surrey, 21 m. SW. of London, on the right bank of the Thames.