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94 X SULLA. SULPICIA.
but he was intercepted in his journey by P. [No. 1I], and also a step-son Memmius. (Cic.
Sittius, taken prisoner, and carried to Caesar [SIT- ad Q. Ft. iii. 3.)
TIUS]. He was accompanied in his flight by his 10. SERV. CORNELIUS SULLA, also a son of No.
wife Pompeia and his children, as well as by Afra- 8, took part in both of Catiline's conspiracies. His
nius, and they were all captured along with him. guilt was so evident, that no one was willing to
Upon their arrival in. Caesar's camp, Faustus and defend him; but we do not read that he was put
Afraniuns were murdered by the soldiers in a tumult, to death along with the other conspirators. (Sall.
probably not without Caesar's connivance; but Cat. 17, 47; Cic. pro Sull. 2.)
Pompeia and her children were dismissed uninjured 11. P. CORNELIUS SULLA, the son of No. 9.
by Caesar. Faustus seems only to have resembled Nothing is recorded respecting him. He was alive
his father in his extravagance., We know from at the time of his father's death in B. C. 45. (" P.
Cicero (ad Att. ix. 11) that he was overwhelmed Sullam patrem mortuum habebamus," Cic. ad Farl.
with debt at the breaking out of the civil war., xv. 17, pro Sulla, 31.) Respecting the preceding
(Dion Cass. xxxvii. 51, xxxix. 17, xl. 50, xlii. 13; Sullae see Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. ii. pp.
Cic. pro Szll. 19; Caes. B. C. i. 6; Hirt. B. Aft. 425-524.
87, 95; Appian, B. C. ii. 100; Flor. iv. 2. ~ 90; 12. L. CORNELIUS P. F. P. N. SIULLA, the son
Oros. vi. ] 6.) of No. 11, was consul B. C. 5 with Augustus. (Plin.
8. SERV. CORNELIUS SULLA, known only as the H. N. vii. ] 1. s. 13; Dion Cass. index, lib. lv.)
brother of the dictator, and the father of the two 13. L. CORNELIUS (L. F. P. N.) SULLA FELIx,
following persons. (Sall. Cat. 17; Dion Cass. son of No. 12, was consul in the reign of Tiberius,
xxxvi. 27.) A. D. 33, with Serv. Sulpicins Galba. (Dion Cass.
9. P. CORNELIUS SULLA, a son of No. 8, and a lviii. 20; Tac. Ann. vi. 15.) He is probably the
nephew of the dictator. He was grown up in the same as the " L. Sulla, nobilis juvenis," mentioned
lifetime of his uncle, from whom he received as by Tacitus, in A. D. 21 (Ann. iii. 31), and as the
presents several estates of those who had been pro- L. Sulla, whose advanced age in the reign of Clanuscribed. In the consular comitia of B. C. 66 he was dius is spoken of by Dion Cassius (lx. 12).
elected consul along with P. Autronius Paetus, but 14. L. CORNELIUS SULLA, probably son of No.
neither he nor his colleague entered upon the office, 13, was consul suffectus under Claudius in A. D.
as they were accused of bribery by L. Torquatus 52. (Fasti.)
the younger, and were condemned. L. Cotta and 15. FAIsTus CORNELIUS SULLA, consul under
L. Torquatus, the father of their accuser, received Claudius, in A.. D. 2, with L. Salvits Otho Tithe consulship in their stead. It was currently tianus. He was the son-in-law of Claudius, having
believed that Sulla was privy to both of Catiline's married his daughter Antonia. Soon after the acconspiracies, and he was accordingly accused of this cession of Nero, Paetus accused Pallas and Burrus
crime by his former accuser, L. Torquatus, and by of the design of placing Sulla upon the throne;
C. Cornelius. He was defended by Hortensius and although the accusation was declared to be
and Cicero, and the speech of the latter on his be- false, Nero became jealous of Sulla. One of the
half is still extant. He was acquitted; but, inde- emperor's freedmen accordingly invented a plot
pendent of the testimony of Sallust (Cat. 17), his which was falsely ascribed to Sulla, who was thereguilt may almost be inferred from the embarrass- upon ordered by Nero to go into exile to Massilia,
ment of his. advocate. According to A. Gellius A. D. 59. But as Nero feared that Sulla from his
(xii. 12) Cicero had borrowed a sum of money from proximity to the German legions might induce them
Sulla for the purchase of his house on the Palatine. to revolt, he was put to death by order of the
Cicero afterwards quarrelled with Sulla, because emperor in A. D. 63. (Suet. Claud. 27; Tac. Ann.
the latter had taken part in the proceedings of xii. 52, xiii. 23, 47, xiv. 57.)
Clodius against him during his banishment. (Cic. 16. CORNELIUS SULLA, governor of Cappadocia,
ad Att. iv. 3.) In the civil war Sulla espoused was put to death by Elagabalus. (Dion Cass.
Caesar's cause. He served under him as legate in lxxix. 4.)
Greece, and commanded along with Caesar himself SULPI'CIA. 1. The mother-in-law (socrus)
the right wing at the battle of Pharsalia, B. C. 48. of Sp. Postumius Albinus, by whose instrumentality
In the following year he was ordered by Caesar to the latter, in his consulship, B. c. 168, became accarry over from Italy to Sicily the legions which quainted with the crimes perpetrated in connection
were destined for the African war; but the sol- with the worship of Bacchus. (Liv. xxxix. 11-1 3.)
diers of the twelfth legion rose in mutiny, and 2. The daughter of Ser. Sulpicius Paterculis,
drove him away with a shower of stones, demanding and the wife of Q. Fulvius Flaccus. She was deto receive, before they quitted Italy, the rewards clared to be the chastest woman in Rome, and was
which they had been promised in Greece. At the therefore selected, in B. C. 113, to dedicate the
conclusion of the civil war Sulla purchased at a statue of Venus Verticordia, who was believed to
small sum some of the confiscated estates of the turn the minds of women from vice to virtue. (Val.
Pompeian party, and appears in consequence to Max. viii. 15. ~ 12; Plin. H. N. vii. 35.)
have incurred no small degree of obloquy. He 3. The wife of Lentulus Cruscellio. Her husdied during a journey in B. C. 45; and, according band was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. c. 43,
to Cicero (ad Farm. ix. 10, xv. 17), people were too and fled to Sex. Pompeius in Sicily, whithler
glad to hear of his death to trouble themselves Sulpicia followed him, against the wish of her
about the inquiry whether he had perished by the mother Julia. (Val. Max. vi. 7. ~ 3; Appian, B. C.
hands of robbers, or had fallen a victim to excessive iv. 39.)
indulgence in the pleasures of the table. (Cic. pro 4. SULPICIA PRAETEXTATA, the wife of Crassus,
Sulla, passim; Sall. Cat. 17, 18; Dion Cass. xxxvi. is mentioned at the commencement of the reign of
27; Cic. de Fin. ii. 19; Caes. B. C. iii. 51, 89; Vespasian, A. D. 70. (Tac. Hist. iv. 42.)
Appian, B. C. ii. 76; Cic. ad A4t. xi. 21, 22, de SULPI'CIA. [TIBULLUS.]
0. iit. 8.) Sulla left behind him a son P. Sulla SULPI'CIA, a Roman poetess who flourished