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84. Peace with Mithridates 189
Sulla attacks Fimbria, the Marian general, in Asia 189
83. He returns to Italy 189

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
CHAPTER XXIX.
FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA TO THE CONSULSHIP OF
POMPEY AND CRASSUS. B.C. 78-70.
78. Consulship of Lepidus and Catulus 199
Lepidus attempts to repeal the laws of Sulla 199

Is opposed by Catulus 199
Is defeated at the Mulvian Bridge 199
Retires to Sardinia 200
His death 200
82. Sertorius in Spain 200
79. Carries on war against Metellus 200
CN. POMPEIUS MAGNUS 200 His birth 200 89. Fights against the
Italians under his father 200 83. Joins Sulla 200 82. Is sent into Sicily
and Africa 200 80. Enters Rome in triumph 201 78. Supports the
aristocracy against Lepidus 201 76. Is sent into Spain to assist Metellus
201
72. Assassination of Sertorius by Perperna 202
71. Pompey finishes the war in Spain 202
73. War of the Gladiators: Spartacus 202
72. Spartacus defeats both Consuls 202
71. Crassus appointed to the command of the war against the Gladiators
202
Defeats and slays Spartacus 203
Pompey cuts to pieces a body of Gladiators 203
70. Consulship of Pompey and Crassus 203
Pompey restores the Tribunitian power 203
Law of L. Aurelius Cotta, transferring the Judicia to the Senators,
Equites, and Tribuni Ærarii 204

CHAPTER XXX.
THIRD OR GREAT MITHRIDATIC WAR. B.C. 74-61.
83. SECOND MITHRIDATIC WAR--
Murena invades Pontus 205
83. Mithridates defeats Murena 205
End of the Second Mithridatic War 205
Preparations of Mithridates 206
71. THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR--
Mithridates defeats the Consul Cotta 206
He lays siege to Cyzicus 206
73. The siege is raised by Lucullus 207
Lucullus defeats Mithridates 207
71. Mithridates takes refuge in Armenia 207
70. Lucullus settles the affairs of Asia 207
69. He invades Armenia and defeats Tigranes 208
68. Lucullus defeats Tigranes and Mithridates, and lays siege to Nisibis
208
67. Mithridates returns to Pontus and defeats the generals of Lucullus
208
Mutiny in the army of Lucullus 208
The command of the Mithridatic War given to Glabrio 209

WAR WITH THE PIRATES-- Account of the Pirates 209 Command of
the war given by the Gabinian Law to Pompey 210 Success of Pompey
210 He finishes the war 210
66. THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR CONTINUED 210
Command of the Mithridatic War given by the Manilian Law to
Pompey 210
It is opposed by the aristocracy 211
It is supported by Cicero 211
Pompey defeats Mithridates 211
Mithridates retires into the Cimmerian Bosporus 211
Pompey invades Armenia 212
Submission of Tigranes 212
65. Pompey pursues Mithridates 212
He advances as far as the River Phasis 212
He returns to Pontus, which he reduces to the form of a Roman
province 212
64. He marches into Syria, which he makes a Roman province 212
63. He subdues Phoenicia and Palestine 212
He takes Jerusalem 212
Preparations of Mithridates 213
Conspiracy against him 213
His death 213

Pompey settles the affairs of Asia 213
62. He returns to Italy 213
CHAPTER XXXI.
INTERNAL HISTORY, FROM THE CONSULSHIP OF POMPEY
AND CRASSUS TO THE RETURN OF POMPEY FROM THE EAST:
THE CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE. B.C. 69-61.
C. JULIUS CÆSAR-- 100. His birth 214 His early history 214