46 - Sulla III: Vengeance
Cost of Glory
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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