This reform was undertaken in part because the Roman military engine had exhausted all eligible Romans of proper social rank for the military, and the Republic was under increasing pressure from the Gauls to the north and from Jugurtha of Numidia to the south, not to mention Mithradates in the east. Gaius Marius reformed the Roman army in the year 107 BC. 11) "I'm in year X BC and still have not had the Marian Reforms!"
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