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. 1895 Excerpt: ...from the Senate all senators who were deeply in debt, and to admit the new citizens to the tribes on an equality with the old. ing in another proposition, --to take the command from Sulla and give it to Marius. This was a revolutionary measure, for the public assemblies had never been accustomed to deal with such ...
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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. 1895 Excerpt: ...from the Senate all senators who were deeply in debt, and to admit the new citizens to the tribes on an equality with the old. ing in another proposition, --to take the command from Sulla and give it to Marius. This was a revolutionary measure, for the public assemblies had never been accustomed to deal with such matters, and the command had been lawfully given to Sulla. Its passage led by a fatal necessity to civil war. Sulla refused to obey, marched upon Rome and captured it, put Sulpicius and many of his associates to death, and promulgated a new set of laws of a conservative tendency. Marius escaped capture. First and Second Mithradatic Wars.--Having repealed the laws of Sulpicius, and established matters in Italy upon B.C. 88, an aristocratic basis, Sulla immediately proceeded to the East, and in a war of three years brought Mithradates to terms, forcing him to surrender all his conquests in Asia Minor, and to pay a heavy indemnity. At the same time he punished severely the adherents of Mithradates and the agents of his massacres. He then returned to Italy in B.C. 83. After his departure from his province, there was a brief renewal B.C. 83-2. of hostilities between his successor Murena and King Mithradates, which is known as the Second Mithradatic War. Its incidents are of no importance. Escape of Marius.--Marius had escaped from the slaughter of his partisans, and making his way along the coast, concealed himself in the marshes of Minturnae, where he was arrested and thrown in prison. The town executioner, a Cimbrian slave, was ordered to dispatch him in prison; but when he recognized the conqueror of his nation, and heard him ask, in a stern voice, "Darest thou kill Gaius Marius?" he fled from the apartment, crying, "I cannot kill Gaius...
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