person
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Sulla
also: L. Sulla, Sulla, Lucius Sulla
Dictator (138-78 BC) whose victory in the civil war, proscriptions, and settlement of veterans Sallust treats as the immediate root of the moral and political ruin that produced Catiline.
Reading notes
- The Conspiracy of Catiline §5 Lucius Sulla
The dictator Sulla (d. 78 BC); his victory, proscriptions, and veteran settlements are Sallust's recurring marker for the start of the Republic's ruin.
- The Jugurthine War §95 Lucius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC), here Marius's quaestor at the start of his career; later dictator and Marius's deadly rival in the civil wars. Sallust's sketch foreshadows the 'fortunate' Sulla and the horrors to come.
- The Histories §Lep.1 Lucius Sulla
The dictator Sulla (d. 78 BC), whose proscriptions, confiscations, and veteran settlements Lepidus denounces as a still-standing tyranny.
- The Histories §Lep.1 that sinister Romulus
Sulla, mockingly cast as a second founder of Rome; scaevos ('left-handed,' hence ill-omened) brands him a Romulus of evil augury who refounds the state as a despotism.
- The Histories §Macr.1 Sulla
The dictator whose curtailment of the tribunate Macer urges the people to undo.