Sulla’s Conduct of the War. ‘No previous general had shown so great a mastery of the art of war and such care and interest for the welfare of the State, as distinguished from the success of a party.’—Ihne.

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SECOND CIVIL WAR, 83-82 B.C. (1)
Battles of Sacriportus and the Colline Gate.

[A.]

Iam quot apud Sacri cecidere cadavera Portum

Aut Collina tulit stratas quot porta catervas,

Tum cum, paene caput mundi rerumque potestas

Mutavit translata locum, Romanaque Samnis

Ultra Caudinas speravit volnera Furcas.