. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . cian lawsand the complete enfranchisement of the Italians (87 ).Thereupon the strife of parties broke out again with greaterfury than ever, and after a sanguinary encounter, in whichthousands lost their lives, Cinna was driven from the city andformally deposed from his ofiSce. He fled to the legionsstationed before Nola, which was still held by a garrison ofthe insurgent Samnites, and here he was joined by manyof the party opposed to the Senate. With them came onewho was destined to
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . cian lawsand the complete enfranchisement of the Italians (87 ).Thereupon the strife of parties broke out again with greaterfury than ever, and after a sanguinary encounter, in whichthousands lost their lives, Cinna was driven from the city andformally deposed from his ofiSce. He fled to the legionsstationed before Nola, which was still held by a garrison ofthe insurgent Samnites, and here he was joined by manyof the party opposed to the Senate. With them came onewho was destined to a romantic career and a tragic end, andwho now found himself in strange company, the gentle, thechivalrous, the high-minded Sertorius. In the guise of asuppliant Cinna threw himself on the compassion of thelegions, and called upon them to vindicate the majesty of thepeople violated in the person of their chief magistrate. Histale of wrong found ready sympathy, and the men swore tofollow him as their lawful leader. His forces were soon swelledby large numbers of discontented Italians, and by numerous400.
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