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Sylla returned this answere unto the embassadours sent unto him from the Senate, That he would bee ordered by them, in case those citizens who (upon the hard usage of Cinna) fled unto him, might be restored. The Senate thought this a reasonable condition & a iust demand: but by means of Carbo and that faction, who made reckoning that warre would bee more commodious unto them, there ensued no agreement and accord. The same Carbo when he was minded to exact hostages of all
the townes and colonies of Italie, thereby to bind them upon their alleagance against Sylla, was by a ge∣nerall consent of the Senate crossed and inhibited. The new enfranchised citizens, by vertue of an act by the Senate granted, were allowed the priviledges of their suffrages and voices. Q. Metellus Pius, who had sided with the nobilitie, whiles he levied warre in Affricke was by C. Fabius the Pretour dis∣comfited: and by the faction of Carbo and those that followed the part of Marius, an Act of Senat pas∣sed, That all armies and forces wheresoever should be cassed and discharged. The Libertines were distri∣b••ted indifferently throughout the five and thirtie tribes. Besides all this, heere is specified the prepa∣rat••on of warre which was raised against Sylla.