Gaius Memmius (d. December 100 BC), was a tribune of the plebs in 111 BC and attacked certain aristocrats on a charge of corrupt relations with Jugurtha. Sallust refers to Memmius as "a man fiercely hostile to the power of the nobles"^[1] and states that he gave speeches whipping up the plebs, urging them not to accept the behaviour of the nobles.

In 100 BC, Memmius was a candidate for the consulship of the following year (99 BC), but was slain in a riot, stirred up by his rival the praetor Gaius Servilius Glaucia..

Sallust describes him as an orator, but Cicero had a poor opinion of him.^[2]

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