Cimbrian War
"Prorogatio" has been characterized by modern scholars as a "dodge" or a "legal fiction" for maintaining the illusion that "imperium" was a property of the office and not the individual. In the Late Republic, the "prorogatio imperii" for supposed military crises provided one precedent for the legal maneuvering that permitted the multiple and sequential consulships of Gaius Marius in the context of the Cimbrian War, as later when constitutional mechanisms were sought for consolidating the powers that created Augustus.