for the murder of one of the consular candidates for the benefit of his political ally Glaucia. In the turmoil that followed, he attempted an occupation of the Capitoline hill. But Marius, armed with a [[senatus consultum ultimum]], to quiet the disorder, raised troops near the city and invested Saturninus' position on the Capitoline. After a short siege, Saturninus was arrested and imprisoned in the [[curia Hostilia]]. A hostile mob surrounded and stormed the curia, killing Saturninus and the other men imprisoned there.

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