The Dilemma of Sol

In 80 BC Sol announced that he would be stepping down from his office at the end of the year and normal consular elections would resume. He was not quite ready for retirement though and decided to stand for election as consul the next year. But after this year in legitimate office was complete, he really did retire to his country villa where he worked on his autobiography. Most of Sol's constitutional reforms would be repealed within a decade of his death. Within three decades Rome would be engulfed in a war between the men who looked at Sol's career and asked themselves why not me?