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sulla
WordNet
n. perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop [syn: French honeysuckle, Hedysarum coronarium]
Roman general and dictator (138-78 BC) [syn: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix]
Wikipedia
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (; c. 138 BC – 78 BC), known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as reviving the dictatorship. Sulla was awarded a grass crown, the most prestigious Roman military honor, during the Social War. Sulla was a skillful general, achieving numerous successes in wars against different opponents, both foreign and Roman. His life was habitually included in the ancient biographical collections of leading generals and politicians, originating in the biographical compendium of famous Romans published by Marcus Terentius Varro. In Plutarch's Parallel Lives Sulla is paired with the Spartan general and strategist Lysander.
Sulla's dictatorship came during a high point in the struggle between optimates and populares, the former seeking to maintain the Senate's oligarchy, and the latter espousing populism. In a dispute over the eastern army command (initially awarded to Sulla by the Senate but reneged at Gaius Marius's intrigues) Sulla unconstitutionally marched his armies into Rome and defeated Marius in battle. After his second march on Rome, he revived the office of dictator which had been inactive since the Second Punic War over a century before, and used his powers to enact a series of reforms to the Roman Constitution, meant to restore the primacy of the Senate and limit tribune power. Sulla's ascension was also marked by political purges in proscriptions. After seeking election to and holding a second consulship, he retired to private life and died shortly after. Sulla's decision to seize power – ironically enabled by his rival's military reforms that bound the army's loyalty with the general rather than to Rome – permanently destabilized the Roman power structure. Later leaders like Julius Caesar would follow his precedent in attaining political power through force.
Sulla can refer to:
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Sulla, a Roman dictator
- Sulla, the cognomen used by members of Cornelii Sullae, a family within the gens Cornelia and relatives of the Roman dictator
- Hedysarum coronarium, a plant used for animal feed
- A Celtic goddess also called Sulis
- Sullah Upazila, a place in Bangladesh
Usage examples of "sulla".
Sulla had brought back from Corinth and had made so popular-delicate sprays of acanthus leaves.
Dopo aver respirato fortemente per assicurarsi che viveva ancora, passatasi la mano sulla fronte.
Later on, when you are less appalling to look at, I shall require that you apologize to Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
It was also noted that Sulla had given himself a priesthood to complement the augurship he held already-and that he was the only man to hold both.
Publius Sulla and his dear friend Publius Autronius, were discovered to have bribed massively.
For which reason most of the men prosecuted for electoral bribery had succeeded in being elected, from Publius Sulla and Autronius to Murena.
However, the father was not without some influence, and was able to procure the boy a cadetship in the legion Marcus Crassus had recruited for Sulla after he landed in Italy and began his war against Carbo.
Philippus took everything I had and gave it to Cinna and Carbo- and Sulla has not given it back.
Between that time and Pompeia Sulla she had endured two other mistresses, older and colder than the wife of the Pontifex Maximus.
After defeating several generals whom Sulla had sent against him, he had to encounter, in B.
Romans was due, of course, to the occupation of the city by Fimbria and Flaccus four years earlier, when they-appointed by the government of Cinna-had decided to head for Asia and a war with Mithridates rather than for Greece and a war with Sulla.
Sulla knew he would never attain, which only gave added luster to the humbler efforts of Quintus Gavius Myrto.
Ptolemy Alexander the Younger, Sulla had understood why Egypt had preferred to be ruled by old Lathyrus the Chickpea.
But-how very useful he might prove to be if only Lathyrus Chickpea had the grace and good sense to die while Sulla was still the Dictator!
While Hercules Atlas poured two cups full of wine, Sulla loosened the strings holding the mouth of the purse shut, and deftly palmed a plump screw of paper he fished out of its interior.