A New War Breaks Out in the East

Sulla is on his third wife by that point, but he divorces poor chlolia and marries into the most powerful political family of his age. His new wife, number four, was actually the widow of the man who had long been the invisible hand of the conservative party in the Senate. And so, thus, at age 49, Sulla has at last restored the long lost dignity of his little branch of the Gens Cornelia. The crowning achievement comes not a moment too soon. A new war is breaking out in the east this time. It was potentially disastrous. No, already disastrous. With the social war still in full rage, the wily king of Pont