Chapter XXVIII

SECOND CIVIL WAR--SULLA'S DICTATORSHIP, LEGISLATION, AND DEATH.
B.C. 83-78.

84. Consulship of Cinna and Carbo 190

Death of Cinna 190

83. Consulship of Scipio and Norbanus 190

Preparations for war 191

The Italians support the Marian party 191

Sulla marches from Brundusium to Campania 191

Defeats the Consul Norbanus 191

Pompey, Metellus Pius, Crasus, and others, join Sulla 192

83. Consulship of Papirus Carbo and the younger Marius 192

Defeat of Marius, who takes refuge in Præneste 192

Murder of Senators in Rome by order of Marius 192

Great battle before the Colline gate at Rome between
Sulla and the Samnites 192

Defeat of the Samnites 193

Surrender of Præneste 193

Death of Marius 193

End of the war 193

Sulla master of Rome 193

Proscription 193

Dreadful scenes 194

81. Sulla dictator 194

He celebrates his triumph over Mithridates 194

His reforms in the constitution 194

His military colonies 194

73. He resigns the Dictatorship 195

He retires to Puteoli 195

73. His death 195

His funeral 196

LEGES CORNELLÆ--
I. _Laws relating to the Constitution_ 196
Deprive the Comitia Tribute of their legislative
and judicial powers 196
Increase the power of the Senate 197
Increase the number of the Quæstors and Prætors 197
Deprive the Tribunes of all real power 197
II. _Laws relating to the Ecclesiastical Corporations_ 197
Repeal of the Lex Domitia 197
Increase of the number of Pontiffs and Augurs 197
III. _Laws relating to the Administration of Justice_ 197
Quæstiones Perpetuæ 197
Transference of the Judicia from the Equites to
the Senators 198
IV. _Laws relating to the improvement of Public Morals_ 198