Of the LXXXIII. booke.
CAius Fimbria after hee had discomfited certaine forces of Mithridates, wan the cittie Perga∣mus; besieged the king there, & missed but a little of taking him prisoner. The cittie Ilion, which stood out & reserved it selfe to the behouse & devotion of Sylla, he forced and destroied, and the greater part of Asia he recovered. Sylla in many battailes defeited the Thracians. When L. Cinna and C. Papyrius Carbo (who for two yeeres together were Consuls of their own making) prepared war against Sylla; by the meanes of L. Valerius Flaccus the President of the Senate (who made an oration in the Counsell-house) and those who loved concord and sought for amitie, affected it was in the end, that embassadours should be sent unto Sylla, to treat about a peace. Cinna was murdered by his owne soul∣diours, whom hee forced against their wils to be embarked and to take a voiage against Sylla: by which occasion Carbo alone bare the Consulship. Sylla beeing passed over into Asia, made peace with Mi∣thridates upon this capitulation, That the king should quit these provinces, namely, Asia, Bithynia, and Cappadocia. Fimbria being forsaken of his owne armie, which revolted unto Sylla, gave himselfe a fore wound, and yeelding his neck unto his own bondslave, obtained this favour at his hands, as to dis∣patch him outright.