[5] He suffered defeats at the Aesis river in Umbria by Metellus Pius and at Spoletium by Pompey and Crassus.
After the consul Carbo had fled Italy, Carrinas joined his troops with those of the other remaining government generals on the field, Censorinus and Damasippus, as well as the anti-Sullan Samnites.
Their combined forces tried unsuccessfully to break through the enemy lines at Praeneste, where the other consul, Marius, was besieged.
They then marched to Rome, which Sulla had previously taken, but suffered a final crushing defeat at the Battle of the Colline Gate.
Carrinas was caught in flight and executed, and his head was among those which were paraded before the besieged Marian remnants at Praeneste.