A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . A aCU^Ali llU>it liK«Tl£iU XII is ilKJCll^U Mf tiULLA BUST or POMPEY. CHAPTER X FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA TO THE OUTBREAK OF THEWAR BETWEEN C^SAR AND POMPEY. 78 TO 49. In the very year of Sullas death, it became evident thathis political reforms possessed no vitality. The firstattempt to abolish them was made by u^niiliiis LepiduSywho failed because the painty of Sulla was still too power-ful. Similax attempts, however, were made year afteryear, until, in 70, Pompey, w
A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . A aCU^Ali llU>it liK«Tl£iU XII is ilKJCll^U Mf tiULLA BUST or POMPEY. CHAPTER X FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA TO THE OUTBREAK OF THEWAR BETWEEN C^SAR AND POMPEY. 78 TO 49. In the very year of Sullas death, it became evident thathis political reforms possessed no vitality. The firstattempt to abolish them was made by u^niiliiis LepiduSywho failed because the painty of Sulla was still too power-ful. Similax attempts, however, were made year afteryear, until, in 70, Pompey, who himself had been apartisan of Sulla, carried a law by wliich the powers ofthe xn Dimes were restored to what they had been beforethe reiorm ot Sulla; and in the same year Aurelius Cottacarried a bill by which the courts of law which Sulla hadrestored te ttie senators, were henceforth composed ofsenators, equites, and tribuni serarii Pompey in carry-ing and supporting these measures had no other object inview but to gain popularity, and this end he attainedmost completely, though more by good fortune than byany extraordinary abilities. He became the idol of t
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