A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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reader is referred to the Diet. of Antiq. art. Leyes
Corneliae.
IV. Laws relating to the.Improvement of public
AMorals.-Of these we have very little information. One of them was a Lex Sumtuaria, which
enacted that not more than a certain sum of money
should be spent upon entertainments, and also restrained extravagance in funerals. (Gell. ii. 24;
Macrob. Sat. ii. 13; Plut. Sull. 35). There was
likewise a law of Sulla respecting marriage (Plut.
I.c.; comp. Lye. c. Sull. 3), the provisions of which
are quite unknown, as it was probably abrogated
by the Julian law. z %
The most important modern works on Sulla's I
legislation are —Vockestaert, De L. Cornelio Sulla
legislatore, Lugd. Bat. 1816; Zachariae, L. Cornelius Sulla, &c., Heidelb. 1834, 2 vols., the second A; _
volume of which treats of the legislation; Wittich,
De Reipublicae Romanae ea forma, qua L. Cornelius COINS OF THE DICTATOR SULLA.
Sulla totam remn Romanam commutavit, Lips. 1834;
Ramshorn, De Reip. Rom. ea forma, qua L. C. S. 6. CORNELIUS SULLA., a son of the dictator by
totam rein Rom. commutavit, Lips. 1835; G6ttling, his fourth wife Caecilia Metella, died in the lifeGeschichte der R6misceln Staatsve:fussung, pp. 459 time of his father. (Senec. Cons. ad Marc. 12;
-474; Drumann, Geschichte Rorns, vol. ii. pp. Plut. Sull. 37.)
478-494. 7. FAUSTUS CORNELIUS SULLA, a son of the
There are several coins of the dictator Sulla, a dictator by his fourth wife Caecilia Metella, and a
few specimens of which are annexed. The first twin brother of Fausta, was born not long before
coin contains on the obverse the head of the dic- B. C. 88, the year in which his father obtained his
tator, and on the reverse that of his colleague first consulship. He and his sister received the
in his first consulship, Q. Pompeius Rufus. The names of Faustus and Fausta respectively on accoin was probably struck by the son of Q. Pom- count of the good fortune of their father. (Plut.
peius Rufus, who was tribune of the plebs in Sull. 22, 34, 37.) At the death of his father in
B. C. 52 [PoMPEUs, No. 9], in honour of his B. C. 78, Faustus and his sister were left under the
grandfather and father. The second coin was also guardianship of L. Lucullus. The enemies of Sulla's
probably struck by the tribune of B. c. 52. The constitution constantly threatened Faustus with a
third and fourth coins were struck in the lifetime prosecution to compel him to restore the public
of the dictator. The third has on the obverse the money which his father had received or taken out
head of Pallas, with MANLI. PROQ., and on the re- of the treasury; but the senate always offered a
verse Sulla in a quadriga, with L. SULLA IMP., strong opposition to such an investigation. When
probably with reference to his splendid triumph the attempt was renewed in B. C. 66 by one of the
over Mithridates. The fourth coin has on the ob- tribunes, Cicero, who was then praetor, spoke
verse the head of Venus, before which Cupid stands against the proposal. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 72, ed.
holding in his hand the branch of a palm tree, and Orelli; Cic. pro Cluent. 34, de Leg. Agr. i. 4.)
on the reverse a guttus and a lituus between two Soon after this Faustus accompanied Pompey into
trophies, with IMPER. ITERV(M). The head of Venus Asia, and was the first who mounted the walls of
is placed on the obverse, because Sulla attributed the temple of Jerusalem in B. C. 63, for which exmuch of his success to the protection of this god- ploit he was richly rewarded. (Joseph. Ant. xiv.
dess. Thus we are told by Plutarch (Stll. 34) 4. ~ 4, B. J. i. 7. ~ 4.) In B. C. 60 he exhibited
that when he wrote to Greeks he'called himself the gladiatorial games which his father in his last
Epaphroditus, or the favoulrite of Aphrodite or will had enjoined upon him, and at the same time
Venus, and also that he inscribed on his trophies he treated the people in the most sumptuous manthe namies of Mars and Victory, and Venus (Sull. ner. In B.C. 54 he was quaestor, having been
19). (Comp. Eckhel, vol. v. pp. 190, 191.) elected augur a few years before. In B. C. 52 he
received from the senate the commission to rebuild
the Curia Hostilia, which had been burnt down in
the tumnults following the murder of Clodius, and
which was henceforward to be called the Curia
Cornelia, in honour of Faustus and his father. The
g - l\_: Dabreaking out of the civil war prevented him from
~~G~o~ Ci ~ sobtaining any of the higher dignities of the state.
As the son of the dictator Sulla, and the son-in-law
of Pompey, whose daughter he had married, he
joined the aristocratical party. At the beginning.......,d dof B. C. 49, Pompey wished to send him to Mauritania with the title of propraetor, but was ]Jrevented by Philippus, tribune of the plebs. He
crossed over to Greece with Pompey, was present
at the battle of Pharsalia, and subsequently joined
the leaders of his party in Africa. After the battle
of Thapsus, in B. C. 46, he attempted to escape into
Mauritania, with the intention of sailing to Spain,