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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Caption: Sulla fights his way into Rome

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nhuman miscreants even refused to let the body of Marius rest in peace, but dug it fromits sepulchre on the banks of the Anio, and flung it into the stream. One ofthe dead warriors relatives was captured, and instead of being decently killedwas tortured to death. We weary of the carnival of violence and crime, andclose the record with a curious incident. Among the Romans was a youth of eighteen, a gay, roystering fellow, whowas related by blood to Marius and by marriage to Cinna. His easy good-nature made him popular with all his acquaintances, and Sulla promised tospare him on condition that he should repudiate his wife. The young man re-fused and fled into the Sabine mountains. The assassins hurried after him,like so many bloodhounds, while his friends in Rome pleaded for his pardon.Finally Sulla consented to spare him. But beware, he added; in thatyoung trifler there is more than one Marius. Well might he utter the excla-mation, for the youth to whom he referred was Julius Caesar.
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Rome—Sulla the Fortunate 361 It was inevitable that from this anarchy, noting, fire, blood, death, and utterwretchedness, a Dictator should spring forth. Sulla was declared Dictator foran unlimited term in B.C. 81. He undertook the reconstruction of the govern-ment, but the obstacles and difficulties were innumerable, and his own vehementtemper prevented a successful management of many of the delicate questionsthat came before him. He was the Red Terror, at the mention of whose namethe bravest blanched, since he held in his hands the issues of life and death, andno one dared thwart his ferocious will. He carried his ends by his own resist-less personality, and when he looked upon what he conceived to be the fullfruition of all his grand schemes, he declared himself the favorite of Fortune,which was the only divinity he acknowledged. Then when his despotism wasabsolute, he suddenly resigned the dictatorship in B.C. 79. No doubt the cause of this was the breaking down of his strength.

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