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Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, CHAPTER XII (search)
CHAPTER XII
Sulla's Abdication--Character of Sulla--His Death, and Funeral
Y.R. 674
The following year Sulla, although he was dictator, B.C. 80 undertook
the consulship a second time, with Metellus Pius for his colleague, in order
to preserve the pretence and form of democratic government. It is perhaps
from this example that the Roman emperors now make a showing of consuls to
the country and even exhibit themselves in that capacity, considering it not
unbecoming to hold the office of consul in connection with the supreme
power. The next year the people, in order to pay court to Sulla, chose him
consul again, but he refused the office and nominated Servilius Isauricus
and Claudius Pulcher for their suffrages, and voluntarily laid down the
supreme power, although nobody was troubling him. This act seems wonderful
to me--that Sulla should have been the first, and till then the only one, to