Dio Cassius (XXXIV. cxxxvi. § 1) gives the number as 8,000; Appian as 3,000. Valerius Maximus speaks of three legions (IX. 2, § 1).
718
“A great number of allies and Latins were deprived by one man of the right of city, which had been given to them for their numerous and honourable services.” (Speech of Lepidus, Sallust, Fragm., I. 5.) – “We have seen the Roman people, at the proposal of the dictator Sylla, take, in the comitia of centuries, the right of city from several municipal towns; we have seen it also depriving them of the lands they possessed… As to the right of city, the interdiction did not last even so long as the military despotism of the dictator.” (Cicero, Speech for his House, 30.)
719
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 95. – Velleius Paterculus, II. 28.
720
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 95.
721
Strabo, V. iv. 207.
722
Dio Cassius, XXXIV. 137, § 1.
723
Dio Cassius, XXXIV. 137.
724
Valerius Maximus, IX. ii. 1.
725
Plutarch, Cato of Utica, 21.
726
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 96. – Titus Livius, Epitome, LXXXIX.
727
Appian, I. 100. – Velleius Paterculus, II. 31. – The auxilium was the protection accorded by the tribune of the people to whoever claimed it.
728
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 100 et seq.
729
Appian, Civil Wars, I. (See, on an inscription raised by the freedmen in honour of the dictator, and which has been discovered in Italy, Mommsen, Inscriptiones Latinæ Antiquissimæ, p. 168.)
730
Titus Livius, Epitome, LXXXIX.
731
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 100.
732
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 100. – In 574, the age required for the different magistracies had already been fixed. (Titus Livius, XL. 44.)
733
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 101. – Titus Livius, Epitome, LXXXIX.
734
Aulus Gellius, II. 24.
735
Cicero, Familiar Letters, III. 6, 8, 10.
736
Titus Livius, Epitome, LXXXIX. – Tacitus, Annals, XI. 22. – Aurelius Victor, Illustrious Men, lxxv.
737
Cicero, De Oratore, II. 39. – “A law which, among the ancients, embraced different objects: treasons in the army, seditions at Rome, diminution of the majesty of the Roman people by the bad administration of a magistrate.” (Tacitus, Annals, I. 72.)
738
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 104.
739
He waited the death of the dictator to rob the treasury of a sum which he owed to the State. (Plutarch, Sylla, 46.)
740
Appian, Civil Wars, I. 106.
741
Sylla had taken the name of Fortunate (Felix). (Mommsen, Inscriptiones Latinæ Antiquissimæ, p. 168), or of Faustus, according to Velleius Paterculus.
742