Capitolo 11
of state. He called together the Senate one day, and, while he was
addressing them, the attention of the Reunion was suddenly distracted
from the noise of cries and cries in the near roads from
those that were suffering there from military execution. The senators started
with horror to the sound. Sylla, with an air of great calm and
indifference, directed the members to listen to him/it, and to pay anybody
attention to what was passing elsewhere. The sounds that they has felt
it was, he said, only some correction on which was given by his/her orders
certain disturbers of the public peace.
[Sidenote: the Executions.]
[Sidenote: Extension of the proscriptions of Sylla.]
[Sidenote: Man's nature.]
The orders of Sylla for the execution of those that you/they had taken an active part
against him it was not confined in Rome. They went to the neighbors
city and to distant provinces, bringing terror and anguish each
where. Anchor, terrible as these evilses it was, it is possible for us, in
the conceptions that we form, to overestimate the extension of them. In
reading the history of the Roman empire during the civil wars of Marius
and Sylla, is probable that an images easily that the whole population of the
country was organized in the two armies that contend, and it had a job
entirely in the job of fighting with and to massacre each other. But
nothing as this can be true. It is evidently but a small part, later
all, of a spread out community that can be never actively and personally
taken part in these actions of the violence and blood. Man naturally is not a
wild beast and fierce. On the contrary one, he loves, ordinarily, to live in
the peace and quiet, to cultivate his/her earths and to take takes care of him of his/her flocks and to enjoy
the benedictions of the peace and rest. It is comparatively but a small
you number in some age of the world, and in some nation which the passions of
the ambition, hate or revenge what they loves become so strongly
shedding of blood and war. But this few, when they finds once weapon in them