Sylla

We find in Appian’s history of the Mithridatic war, that it was upon this very ground Murena objected to the convention between Sylla and Mithridates.

Sylla too, as Sallust informs us, urged Bocchus to deliver up Jugurtha, and by so doing to relieve the Romans from the bitter necessity of implicating him for his erroneous conduct in the same guilt with that most desperate villain.

And therefore Ulpian says, that the public have a property in sacred things.

By a despotic dictator, who, with the courage of Sylla, has as much genius for building up, as that Roman had for pulling down.

It was first introduced by Sylla, in his proscriptions, whose example one would scarce have thought worthy imitation.

The lex Cornelia repetundarum passed by the dictator Sylla, b.

The owner of a murdered slave both had a civil remedy by the lex Aquilia, and could prosecute criminally under the lex Cornelia de sicariis, passed in the dictatorship of Sylla, b.

but the fact of their constituting the particular subject-matter of trials before a particular Quæstio impressed itself naturally on the public attention, and so inveterate did the association become between the offences mentioned in the same statute that, even when formal attempts were made by Sylla and by the Emperor Augustus to consolidate the Roman criminal law, the legislator preserved the old grouping.