46 - Sulla III: Vengeance
Cost of Glory
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The Great Salah's Funeral in Rome
Salah's death was not the end of Rome's troubles by any stretch. The Civil War was starting to flare up again into a true crisis in Spain as General Sertorius held out stoutly against Mattella's pious and built up what was starting to look like a rival state in the West. And even in Rome itself, as soon as Salah dies, a fight breaks out immediately over his burial. At his tomb, they burned a great effigy of the dictator, molded out of costly frankincense and cinnamon. On it was an inscription that he composed himself: Here lies Salah, whom no friend ever surpassed in doing kindnesses, nor any enemy in doing mischief
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