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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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m the pestilence, or from a stroke of lightning, or from assassination, for eachof these causes was assigned, and the last is the most reasonable. All hope being gone, the Senate sent to Cinna to arrange terms, and whenthese were refused, to beg him to extend mercy. The scenes that followed areterrifying and shocking to the last degree (b.c. 86). Picture the mercilessCinna, seated in his magistrates chair, with Marius, shaggy, unshorn, squalidand terrible in his grim triumph, standing beside him, the two waiting to de-cide the fate of their hapless victims. The victors had promised to spare thelife of Octavius, and he, relying upon this pledge, refused to make his escape.When he came forward, he was seized in his robes of office. His head was cutoff and by the orders of Cinna suspended from the rostra or stage of the Forum,the first time the barbarous exhibition was made, though it took place manytimes afterward. Then followed a massacre in which the mangled heads of the senators were
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Rome—Sulla Conquers the East 359 displayed in the Forum, and the bodies of the knights and others were cast outfor burial. Among the slain were many of the noblest citizens of Rome. Atlast Cinna and Marius saw fit to check the horrible carnage, and steps weretaken to restore order. They did not deign to call the assembly of the tribes,but nominated themselves to the highest magistracy. IMarius became consulfor the seventh time. He had reached the summit of his ambition, but he wasold and his health was broken. He wished to leave his colleague to preside inthe city, while he assumed the chief military command and wrested from Sullathe direction of affairs in the East. Soon after he fell ill, and taking to hisbed remained a week, when he was found dead. The presumption is fair thatthe gloomy, lonely old man, who had long outlived his usefulness, took his lifewith his own hand. Cinna next chose as his colleague Valerius Flaccus, who set himself vigor-ously to work to carry out the pled

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