skybolaHis family was a member of the Mucius clan, a plebeian family, and entered Roman politics one after another, starting with Quintus Mucius Skybola, who served as praetorSkybola was elected Pontifex Maximus to succeed Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus after his death in 89 BC. A civil war between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla broke