Identifier: grandeurthatwasr00stobrich (find matches)
Title: The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933
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Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
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phet. In the same year he died. Now for fouryears Cinna ruled as monarch at Rome. Year after year heassumed the consulship and nominated the other magistratesat his own choice without the formality of election. He re-pealed the laws of Sulla, equalised all the citizens in the tribes,and reduced all debtsJby 75 per cent. It is the last measurewhich is truly typical of Roman democracy. Meanwhile, ofcourse, the reckoning was in preparation across the seas.Sulla was winning glorious victories in Greece and Asia, andat length in 84, drove Mithradates to surrender temporarily,Cinna, who does not seem to have understood that a Romanarmy belonged not to the republic but to its general, audaciouslyset out to supersede Sulla, and was murdered by the troops. Sulla, having offered terms which the government very foolishly declined, came home in 83 after five years absence I bearing not peace but a sword. He had five veteran legions of his own, the exiled aristocrats joined him, and among them 104
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Plate 14. CN. POMPEIUS MAGNUS(See p. 108) LAST CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC a young man called Pompeius with three more legions. Thelead of the democratic party had now fallen into the hands ofa young Marius, and he having no troops to oppose the return-ing veterans decided to join the Samnite rebels who remainedunconquered from the Social War. Before leaving the citythey ordered a final and still more bloody massacre of thesurviving aristocrats; practically all the men of distinctionleft in the city suffered death. Sulla had to fight 40,000Samnites at the Colline Gate of Rome, and after a desperatestruggle was victorious. The young Marius committed suicide.Thus Sulla was once more master of Rome. His 8000 Samniteprisoners were slaughtered in the Circus. Of the Romandemocrats, 80 senators, 3600 equites, and over 2000 privatecitizens were proscribed, and their heads nailed up in theforum. In Spain, Sertorius, an honest and valorous democrat,maintained a gallant struggle by the aid of a mira

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