Sylla ordered every house from which these symptoms of resistance appeared to be set on fire.

Thus the whole population of a vast and wealthy city were thrown into a condition of extreme danger and terror, by the conflicts of two great bands of armed men, each claiming to be their friends.
[Sidenote: Defeat of Marius.] Marius was conquered in this struggle, and fled for his life.

Many of the friends whom he left behind him were killed.

The Senate were assembled, and, at Sylla's orders, a decree was passed declaring Marius a public enemy, and offering a reward to any one who would bring his head back to Rome.
[Sidenote: His flight.] Marius fled, friendless and alone, to the southward, hunted every where by men who were eager to get the reward offered for his head.

After various romantic adventures and narrow escapes, he succeeded in making his way across the Mediterranean Sea, and found at last a refuge in a hut among the ruins of Carthage.