
44 - Sulla 1: The Lucky
Cost of Glory
The Romans' War With Ugurtha
Sula was a cornelius, after all, and he was so likable. He ran and won himself a post as queistor for the year one o seven b c. Now marius has just come into office riding on a wave of popular anger over the mismanagement of foreign wars. And sulla brings with him to africa a large force of cavalry. That was his first job, recruit cavalry from the italian countryside. Once he arrives at the roman base in numidia, he has two clear objectives for himself. The first is to make marus look as good as possible. This, yeu can do by being as useful as possible, by working as hard
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