Identifier: generalhistoryfo01myer (find matches)
Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the greeting of anycitizen, that sealed his fate : he was instantly despatched. by thesoldiers who awaited the dictators nod. The bodies of the vic-tims lay unburied in the streets. Sullas house was torn down, andhe himself declared a public enemy. Rumors were now spread that Sulla, having overthrown Mithri-dates, was about to set out on his return with his victorious legions.He would surely exact speedy and terrible vengeance. Marius,old and enfeebled by the hardships of many campaigns, seemedto shrink from again facing his hated rival. He plunged into dis-sipation to drown his remorse and gloomy forebodings, and diedin his seventy-first year (86 b.c). Sulla and the Mithridatic War. — When Sulla left Italy withhis legions for the East, he knew very well that his enemies wouldhave their own way in Italy during his absence ; but he also knewthat, if successful in his campaign against Mithridates, he couldeasily regain Italy, and wrest the government from the hands ofthe Marian party.
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