Sulla
historical figure · 8 works · 12 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Lucius Cornelius Sulla · Lucius Sulla · Sylla · the dictator Sulla
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman dictator during whose dictatorship the lex Cornelia was enacted.
The lex Cornelia, the first which mentions the fidejussor as well as the sponsor and fidepromissor, limiting the amount for which the same guarantor could be bound as security for a contract either of mutuum or of stipulatio in the same year for the same principal in the same stipulation, was passed in the dictatorship of Sylla, b.
We know, at least, that some of Sulla’s legislation was effected through the Comitia Centuriata (Cic pro Dom.
but, apart from the exercise of this authority, which had long had a de facto recognition, but was not recognized by law until the time of Sulla (88 and 81 b.
On Anger
Roman dictator associated with the age in which the saying 'Let them hate, so long as they fear' was written
" You may know it was written in Sulla's age.
who is not roused against the arms of Marius, against the proscription of Sulla?
That we should not be angry at the children of our enemies and foes—it is among the instances of Sulla's cruelty that he debarred the children of the proscribed from public life.
On Moral Ends
Roman dictator described as master of luxury, avarice, and cruelty, contrasted with the wise man
more rightly master of the people — for that is the dictator — than Sulla, who was master of three pestilent vices, luxury, avarice, cruelty;
Consolation to Helvia
Roman general who led a colony of Roman citizens to settle the island of Seneca's exile.
Then two colonies of Roman citizens were led out, one by Marius, the other by Sulla;
Letters to Lucilius
Roman dictator cited as an example of one who blushed when at his most violent
Sulla was at his most violent when the blood had mounted to his face.
On Providence
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman dictator responsible for proscriptions and the Cornelian law, presented as inwardly unhappy despite his power.
Because he alone refused something to the dictator Sulla, and, when recalled, all but drew back and fled farther off?
Is Lucius Sulla happy because, when he goes down to the Forum, his way is cleared with the sword;
Apologeticum
Roman dictator noted for fortune.
Who is loftier than Pompey, more fortunate than Sulla, richer than Crassus, more eloquent than Tully?
De Pallio
Roman figure cited for owning enormously heavy silver platters.
likewise that by which Sulla works platters of a hundred pounds' weight!