The Populares were beaten and driven up to the Capitol, where the supply of water was cut off from them and they were thus compelled to surrender.

Marius, who held the chief command, would gladly have saved the lives of his former allies who were now his prisoners; Saturninus proclaimed to the multitude that all which he had proposed had been done in concert with the consul: even a worse man than Marius was could not but shudder at the inglorious part which he played on this day.

But he had long ceased to be master of affairs.

Without orders the youth of rank climbed the roof of the senate-house in the Forum where the prisoners were temporarily confined, stripped off the tiles, and with these stoned their victims.

Thus Saturninus perished with most of the more notable prisoners.