44 - Sulla 1: The Lucky
Cost of Glory
A Man's Instinct
Soothsayers declared that a brave man of rare courage and exceptional looks was destined to take control of the government. And sulla could only observe the obvious fact that he fit the description perfectly. Sulla returns to the city in 89 b c. as the social war is winding down. He divorces poor cloulia and marries into the most powerful political family of his age, the metelli. His new wifenuber four, was actually the widow of the man who had long been the invisible hand of the conservatve party in the senate - amelius caurus himself.
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