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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sulla was born into a branch of the Cornelii gens, of impeccable Patrician background, but his family, by the time of his birth, had fallen to an impoverished condition.
Sulla’s chief of staff was Lucullus, who went ahead of him to scout the way and negotiate with Bruttius Sura, the existing Roman commander in Greece.
Sulla’s innovation could be said to have come of age 2,000 years later at the battle of the Somme.
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 LUCIUS CORNELIUS SULLA FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sulla was born into an impoverished branch of the Cornelii gens, or family, of aristocratic patrician stock but without influence in the city.
With Sulla's assistance, Marius and Catulus defeated the Cimbri in the Battle of Vercellae in 101 BC.
Sulla's purpose was to write his memoirs, but he ended up surrounded by a troupe of actors, dancers and prostitutes.
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 Cornelia Sulla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cornelia Sulla (born around 109BC) was one of the few Roman women mentioned in Roman Republican sources.
Cornelia was educated by Sulla's second wife, a Aelia, a gentlewoman of high repute.
Cornelia and her new husband took rapid steps to safeguard Sulla's estates from the resulting mock trials and proscriptions during Marius's seventh consulship.
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 Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Military History Wiki
Sulla's name is also seen as "Silla", presumably due to corruption of ancient writing "SVILLA" (Suilla), that went in the two directions of Sulla and Silla.
In this last rebellion of the Italian allies, Sulla served with brilliance as a general, and outshone both Marius and the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (the father of Pompey).
By 81 BC Sulla was appointed dictator (with no limit on time in office) by the senate and had total control of the city of Rome.
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 Lucius Sulla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sulla's fame and notoriety was increased by his service in Cappadocia as its governor, and in the Social War as one of a few effective generals.
Sulla's command in the East resulted in his brutal siege and destruction of Athens and his forcing the Peace of Dardanus which temporarily required Mithridates to give up his conquests as well as to pay a war indemnity to Rome.
Sulla was a harsh disciplinarian with his troops, but he shared their roughest of times along side them, and at times he pampered them.
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 Cornelia59   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sulla's second wife was name Aelia, whom little is known and his fourth wife was named Valeria who was pregnant when Sulla died.
After his death she married Sulla and gave birth to twins.
Sulla, ignoring the Roman 'anti-luxury laws' that he himself had drafted, organized a spectacular state funeral for his wife.
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 Sulla - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (Latin: L·CORNELIVS·L·F·P·N·SVLLA·FELIX)[1] (c   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sulla was born into a branch of the Cornelii gens, of impeccable Patrician background, but his family, by the time of his birth, had fallen to an impoverished condition.
While in the East, Sulla was the first Roman magistrate to meet a Parthian ambassador, Orobazus, and by taking the seat between the Parthian ambassador and the ambassador from Pontus (the center seat being the place of honour), he sealed, perhaps unintentionally, the Parthian ambassador's fate.
Sulla can be seen as setting the precedent for Julius Caesar's dictatorship, and the eventual end of the Republic under Augustus.
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 Lucius Cornelius Sulla - encyclopedia article about Lucius Cornelius Sulla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is also occasionally seen as "Sylla" (Often the Greek upsilon was transliterated into the Roman Alphabet as a "y"). His agnomen Felix — the fortunate — was attained later in his life, due to his skill and luck as a general.
Sulla was born into a branch of the Cornelii gens, of impeccable Patrician background but at the time financially challenged.
Lysander and Sulla - Numa and Lycurgus - Pelopidas and Marcellus - Philopoemen and Flamininus - Phocion and Cato the Younger - Pompey and Agesilaus
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 HNN - HuntingtonNews.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The young Caesar, as Cinna's son-in-law, was one of Sulla's targets for execution and at some point he had to flee Rome to run for his life.
Sulla later pardoned Caesar and his family and allowed him to return to Rome, however, he foresaw in him “….many a Marius” who would destroy the Republic and the nobles.
Pompeia Sulla was the daughter of Quintus Pompeius Rufus and Cornelia Sulla the daughter of the Dictator Sulla, so through marriage Caesar actually became the grand-son-in-law of the dictator who had died in 78 BC.
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 Cornelia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Ancient Rome, Cornelia was the name of the women born in all the branches of the Cornelii family.
Cornelia Africana, mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Cornelia, Free State is a town in South Africafr:Cornelia
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 Companion: Suetonius, Divus Iulius: Julia Marii
Sulla gained control of Rome, was ordered to divorce his second wife, Cornelia, whom he had married when she was thirteen and he was eighteen.
Cornelia, as the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, reinforced Caesar's ties with the
Cornelia's dowry was confiscated when Caesar refused to divorce her.
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 Child of Ember - Cornelia Sulla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cornelia Sulla stands 5' 11" tall and weighs around 150 pounds, most of it muscle.
Cornelia carries a large backpack and walks with confidence, despite the fact that she is obviously in a strange place.
Cornelia has tanned, weathered skin despite being roughly thirty years of age, with flaming red hair and strikingly ice-blue eyes.
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 Domus
The civil war was terrible, and some italian cities were destroyed: for instance, Forlì was destroyed in the 88 BC and rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afetrwards.
Marcus Cornelius Sulla, adopted as Lucius Cornelius Scipio Cornelianus
Iullus Cornelius Sulla, adopted as Quintus Aemilius Scaurus Cornelianus
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 Astrology of Julius Caesar with horoscope chart, quotes, biography, and images
Sulla marches on Rome with his army; caputres the city; repeals legislation and passes laws strengthening the Senate.
Thus, when Sulla emerged as the winner of this civil war and began his program of proscriptions, Caesar, not yet 20 years old, was in a bad position.
The granddaughter of Sulla, and daughter of Quintus Pompey, Pompeia Sulla, was to be his next wife.
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 Enter Pompeia Sulla....
Pompeia Sulla giggled and covered her mouth with one hand; her youngest had just learned how to chase his own tail by watching the newly arrived puppy.
Even her mother, Cornelia Sulla, had finally broken down after the shock, and asked advice for her other grandchildren.
Cornelia was of course aware that Pompeia’s abrupt divorce might have proved fortuitous for Servilia, but she also recognized Servilia to be, like herself, Roman Matron to the core.
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 Cornelia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cornelia Hale, from W.I.T.C.H. Cornelia Dahlgren, artist known as Cornelia.
Cornelia, Free State is a town in South Africa
Cornelia, Georgia, a community in the USA state of Georgia.
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 Cornelia29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cornelia Sulla, who would married Gnaeus Pompeius Rufus.
Sulla, became the second wife of Julius Caesar.
78 BC - L. Cornelius Sulla died in his villa outside the city of Puteoli.
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 Masters of Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sulla's second wife, by an arranged marriage, but who fails to gain his love or even affection.
Starts drinking heavily while Sulla is away at war.
Praetor 109 BC Stands against Marius for consul in 108 BC Elected consul in 102 BC Almost loses his army at Tridentum but Sulla foments a mutiny.
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 FEELIX - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
FEELIX appears on a coin of the Cornelia family, struck in honour of Sulla the dictator, by order of the senate, who also caused an equestrian statue to be raised to him with the same attributes inscribed thereon.
This epithet, which flattery bestowed on that "bold bad" man, was afterwards adopted as his surname, and the fortuitous and inforseen prosperity to which it referred became his boast.
In allusion to the coin of Sulla (Cornelia gens), inscribed FEELIX, Eckhel says: "Havercamp considers FEELIX to have been put for FELIX by an error of the moneyer, whereas it is most certain an archaism.
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 Cornelia, Roman Republic Coinage of, Thumbnail Index - WildWinds.com
Cornelia, Roman Republic Coinage of, Thumbnail Index - WildWinds.com
Browsing Roman Republic Coinage of the family Cornelia
Head of Roma right / Sulla in walking quadriga right, crowned by Victory who flies above.
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 Child of Ember - Chapter 1 - The Festival of Lights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Katherynne smiles brightly with a nod, showing Cornelia that Dolph speaks the truth in that he is her friend.
"Dolph, this is Cornelia Sulla, and she has asked that I help her find her way home.
It is fortuitous that you have come at this time, for among such a gathering there is a goodly chance of you finding the answers you seek, if the questions are discreet.
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 Forum Romanum
I am one of the members of gens Cornelia who petitioned to form a new gens.
Sulla and I appeal to the Honored Conscript Fathers as the Junior Consul
Sulla and Helena are going to be sadly missed.
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