Marcus Minucius Thermus was an ancient Roman soldier and statesman.
[3] Suetonius credits Thermus with the victory,[4] but the siege may have been conducted by or in coordination with Lucius Licinius Lucullus.
[5] Julius Caesar began his military service under Thermus after his pardon by Sulla during the proscriptions of 82 BC.
[6] It was Thermus who sent the young Caesar as an envoy to the court of Nicomedes IV of Bithynia to request aid in the form of a fleet.
Although Thermus was a Sullan partisan, in 86 BC his younger brother Quintus had been a legate in Asia under appointment by the rival Marians.