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Sertorius, much too weak to maintain an equal struggle, hastily collected the nearest divisions and embarked at New Carthage for what destination he knew not himself, perhaps for the coast of Africa, or for the Canary Islands it mattered little whither, provided only Sulla's arm did not reach him. Sicily
His successor Taxiles now appeared , driving before him the Roman corps stationed in Thessaly, with an army of, it is said, 100,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry at Thermopylae. Dromichaetes joined him. Archelaus also compelled, apparently, not so much by Sulla's arms as by his master's orders evacuated the Piraeeus first partially and then entirely, and joined the Pontic main army in Boeotia.
Norbanus had seized Sulla's envoys, and this so enraged the soldiers of the latter that they charged down the hill with irresistible impetuosity, and killed 6000 of the foe. Norbanus fled to Capua. Only seventy of the Sullans were killed. Sulla now crossed the Volturnus, and marching along the Appian Road met the other consul, Scipio, at Teanum, with whom he opened negotiations.
Thus it happened that the senate, now when it had been overthrown, suddenly found at its disposal an army far more considerable and far more earnestly faithful, than when in its power and splendour it overthrew the Gracchi and under the protection of Sulla's sword restored the state. The aristocracy felt this; it began to bestir itself afresh.
III. Sulla's power was now declining, and Cæsar's friends in Rome recommended him to return. However, he first made a voyage to Rhodus in order to have the instruction of Apollonius the son of Molon, of whom Cicero also was a hearer. This Apollonius was a distinguished rhetorician, and had the reputation of being a man of a good disposition.
Cæsar, not trusting Sulla's doubtful humor, escaped from Rome, and hid in the depths of the Sabine mountains, awaiting a time when the streets of the capital city would be safer for those who dared speak their minds. Another young man of rising fame showed little less boldness. This was Cicero, who had just returned to Rome from his studies in Greece.
Senators had been cowed and obedient. The Tribunes had only been mock Tribunes. Rome, when Cicero began his public life, was still trembling. The Consuls of the day were men chosen at Sulla's command. The army was Sulla's army. The courts were now again opened by Sulla's permission.
When Sulla wished to commemorate his victory at the Colline gate, he instituted Ludi Victoriae on November I, the date of the battle, and these seem to have been kept up after most of Sulla's work had been destroyed; they are mentioned by Cicero in the passage quoted above from the Verrines, as Ludi Victoriae, but we hear comparatively little of them.
Of Sulla's verses like many cultured Romans of that age, the conqueror of Caius Marius amused his leisure with writing Greek epigrams exactly so much has survived as of the troubadour songs of Richard I of England, or of Frederick II of Jerusalem and Sicily.
IV. II. The First Sicilian Slave War They are certainly remarkable, because they anticipate the Caesarian imperial gold just as Sulla's regency anticipated the new monarchy. IV. XI. Token-Money
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