[192] 'Burning the Capitol' was a proverb of utter iniquity.
[193] In the war between Sulla and Marius, 83 b.c.
[194] The capital town of the Volscians. This early history is told in the first book of Livy.
[195] 507 b.c.
[196] 83 b.c. The interval is really 425 years.
[197] This, according to Pliny, was Sulla's own saying.
[198] Consul in 69 b.c. He took the title of Capitolinus.
[199] On the monument which details his exploits Augustus says that he restored the Capitol at immense cost without inscribing his name on it.
[200] Flavius Sabinus.