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IV. I. War against Aristonicus IV. II. Ideas of Reform III. VI. The African Expedition of Scipio To this occasion belongs his oration -contra legem iudiciariam- Ti. IV. II. Vote by Ballot
Aristonicus, of the family of a common musician, upon the reputation of being the son of Eumenes, filled all Asia with tumults and rebellion. Then again, Mithridates, after his defeats by Sylla and Fimbria, and vast slaughter, as well among his prime officers as common soldiers, made head again, and proved a most dangerous enemy, against Lucullus, both by sea and land.
At the great slave-market at Delos and in the Attic silver-mines about the same period the revolted slaves had to be put down by force of arms. The war against Aristonicus and his "Heliopolites" in Asia Minor was in substance a war of the landholders against the revolted slaves. But worst of all, naturally, was the condition of Sicily, the chosen land of the plantation system.
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