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

934 SULLA. SULLA.
STEMMA SULLARUM.
1. P. Cornelius (Rufinus) Sulla, pr. B. C. 212.
2. P. Cornelius Sulla, 3. Ser. Cornelius Sulla,
pr. B. C. 186. leg. B. C. 167.
4. L. Cornelius Sulla.
5. L. CORNELIUS SULLA FELIX, 8. Serv. Cornelius Sulla.
Dictator.
6. Cornelius Cornelia, 7. Faustus Fausta, Postuma, 9. P. Cornelius 10. Serv. CorSulla. married Cornelius m. 1. C. born after Sulla, nelius Sulla.
Q. Pom- Sulla, m. Mem- the death cos. desig.
peius Pompeia. mius. of the B. C. 66.
Rufus. 2. Milo. Dictator. I
[CORNELIA, [FAUSTA.] 11. P. Cornelius
No. 8.] Sulla.
12. L. Cornelius
Sulla, cos. B. C. 5.
13. L. Cornelius
Sulla Felix,
COS. A. D. 33.
14. L. Cornelius
Sulla, cos.
suff. A. D. 52.
15. Faustus Cornelius Sulla, cos. A. D. 52.
16. Cornelius Sulla, praef. Cappadociae sub Elagabalo.
education. He studied the Greek and Roman Roman noble, now enabled him to aspire to the
literature with diligence and success, and appears honours of the state, and he accordingly became a
early to have imbibed that love for literature and candidate for the quaestorship, to which he was
art by which he was distinguished throughout his elected for the year B. c. 107. He was ordered tc
life. At the same time that he was cultivating carry over the cavalry to the consul C. Marius,
his mind, he was also indulging his senses. He who had just taken the command of the Jugurthine
passed a great part of his time in the company of war in Africa. Marius was not well pleased that
actors and actresses; he was fond of wine and a quaestor had been assigned to him, who was
women; and lie continued to pursue his pleasures only known for his profligacy, and who had had
with as much eagerness as his ambitious schemes no experience in war; but the zeal and energy with
down to the time of his death. He possessed which Sulla attended to his new duties soon renall the accomplishments and all the vices which dered him a useful and skilful officer, and gained
the old Cato had been most accustomed to de- for him the unqualified approbation of his comnounce, and he was one of those patterns of Greek mander, notwithstanding his previous prejudices
literature and of Greek profligacy who had begun against him. He was equally successful in winto make their appearance at Rome in Cato's time, ning the affections of the soldiers. He always adand had since become more and more common dressed them with the greatest kindness, seized
among the Roman nobles. But Sulla's love of every opportunity of conferring favours upon them,
pleasure did not absorb all his time, nor did it was ever ready to take part in all the jests of the
emasculate his mind; for no Roman during the camp, and at the same time never shrunk from
latter days of the republic, with the exception of sharing in all their labours and dangers. Sulla,
Julius Caesar, had a clearer judgment, a keener doubtless, had already the consulship before his
discrimination of character, or a firmer will. The eyes, and thus early did he show that he possessed
truth of this the following history will abundantly the great secret of a man's success in a free state,
prove. the art of winning the affections of his fellow-men.
The slender property of Sulla was increased by He distinguished himself at the battle of Cirta, in
the liberality of his step-mother and of a courtezan which Jugurtha and Bocchus were defeated; and
named Nicopolis, both of whom left him all their when the latter entered into negotiations with
fortune. His means, though still scanty for a Marius, for the purpose of delivering the Numnidian