De'cula, M. Tu'llius
was consul in B. C. 81, with Cornelius Dolabella, during the dictatorship of Sulla; but the consuls of that year were only nominal, as Sulla had all the power in his hands. (Cic.
de Leg. Agr. 2.14; Gellius,
15.28; Appian,
App. BC 1.100.)
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