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the next order would be for its destruction. He ran away accordingly. Sylla
the disseisee of its titles and offices, forfeited the fortune of his/her wife
and his/her his/her own piece of ground of ground of patrimonial, and it put his/her name on the list of the
public enemies. This way Caesar became a fugitive and an exile. The
adventures that happened him in its vagabondages will be described in the
I capitulate following.
[Sidenote: Sylla made dictator.]
[Sidenote: He discharges him his/her power.]
Now Sylla was in the possession of the absolute power. He was master of
Rome, and of all the countries on which Rome held the hesitation. Still he was
nominally not a judge, but only a returning general victoriously
from his/her Asian country, and putting to death, rather irregularly,
it is true, from a kind of people of law martial that he founded, as he said,
disturbing the public peace. After having so indeed prepared of
the power of his/her enemies, he placed apart, apparently, the government of
the sword, and it submitted his/her future measures to the control and he
of law. He apparently put on to the disposition of the city.
They chose him/it to Them dictator that was investing him/it with absolute and
boundless power. He remained on this the tallest pinnacle of fashionable man,
the ambition, short once and then discharged him its power, and endeared the
rest of his/her days to literary searches and pleasures. I show as him
it was in the cruelties that he inflicted on his/her political enemies, he was
intellectually of a refined and cultivated mind and felt an ardent
interest in the promotion of the literature and the arts.
[Sidenote: Opinion of humanity in respect to Marius and Sylla.]
The dispute between Marius and Sylla, in in comparison to every thing that
you/he/she can make such great dispute, stands in the estimate of humanity as
the greatest personal dispute that ever has the history of the world
recorded. Its origin was in the simple personal rivalry of two ambitious
men. It involved, in his/her consequences, the peace and the happiness of the