This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...and is saluted "imperator." Defeat of Norbanus, and siege of Capua. Scipio's army goes over en masse. Sulla and Metellus winter in Campania. Q. Sertorius goes to Spain. Asia.--Murena renews the war, and, after remonstrance from Sulla, enters Pontus, and is defeated. The Romans evacuate Cappadocia. Consuls--C. Marius, C ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...and is saluted "imperator." Defeat of Norbanus, and siege of Capua. Scipio's army goes over en masse. Sulla and Metellus winter in Campania. Q. Sertorius goes to Spain. Asia.--Murena renews the war, and, after remonstrance from Sulla, enters Pontus, and is defeated. The Romans evacuate Cappadocia. Consuls--C. Marius, C. f., Cn. Papirius Carbo (III.). Marius, defeated by Sulla, near Signia, holds Praeneste. L. Brutus Damasippus aban-dons Rome, after a massacre of the leading Optimates (P. Antistius and C. Carbo, L. Domitius, and Q. Scaevola). Sulla leaves the siege of Praeneste to Ofella, and occupies Rome. Then marches to Etruria, where his advance is checked by Carbo, who had already fought with Metellus and Cn. Pompeius. Norbanus, after some successes, attacks Metellus, and is defeated. Metellus marches against Carbo. Etruria secured. Carbo flies to Africa, but is taken and killed. The Samnites, 40,000 strong, under Pontius Telesinus, march on Rome; are de-feated by Sulla and M. Crassus at the Colline Gate. Praeneste surrenders. Most of its citizens and all Samnite prisoners killed. Suicide of Marius. Provinces. Sicily still holds out, under M. Perpenna. Hither Spain under Sertorius. Africa under Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (Hiempsal II. dethroned by Hiarbas). Sulla, on the proposal of the interrex, L. Valerius Flaccus, receives supreme power under the title Dictator, with sanction for all his acts, including proscription of the Marians, among them 1600 of the Equites; confiscations to amount of 3,500,000 H.S. Ofella killed by Sulla's order for suing for the consulship in defiance of the "leges annales." Sulla dictator (81-79). Leges Cornelias. (1.) Revolted cities punished by--(a) Confiscation of land, at Vola-terrae, Arretium, Prae-nest...
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