Pompeius at the time of the proscriptions had put away his wife at Sulla's behest.
People who had trembled and believed that a reign of terror and proscriptions of the kind carried out by Marius and Sulla would follow, breathed again.
In the proscriptions Pompeius acquired so much wealth that within a few years he was one of the richest men in Rome.
The press stimulated massacres and proscriptions during the frightful period which we are approaching; but the press has also held up to horror the memory of the perpetrators, and exposed the artifices by which the actors were instigated.
But further on he alludes to the horror which the recollection of the proscriptions still inspired.
Sulla's dictatorship, with its wholesale proscriptions of the popular party.
The victims of the Sullan proscriptions numbered from four to five thousand.
On account of these marriage relations Caesar barely escaped being included in the proscriptions of Sulla.
The victory of Sulla was followed by the terrible proscriptions with which the name of this general must ever be associated.
But, during the proscriptions and confiscations, on the other hand, he got a bad name, by buying at low prices large properties, and asking for grants.
Experience soon revealed the inconveniences which might rise from the mixture of the superior race with the inferior ones, and all the proscriptions of religion tended thereafter to prevent it.
These two proscriptions are quite fundamental, and the first not less than the second.
War and the proscriptions had exacted a heavy toll from Romans and Italians; Greece, Macedonia and Asia had been brought to the verge of ruin; the whole empire longed for peace.
From these proscriptions the equestrians suffered particularly; 2600 of them are said to have perished, together with ninety senators.
Foremost among them was Lucius Sergius Catilina, a patrician who enjoyed an evil repute for his share in the Sullan proscriptions and the viciousness of his private life.
In the time, however, of the proscriptions and sequestrations, he lost his repute again, by making great purchases for little or nothing, and asking for grants.
The proscriptions began toward the end of the year 82 B.
More than once, in pleading for Quintius, he speaks of the proscriptions and confiscations of Sulla as evils then some time past.
But not on this account should it be supposed that Cicero regarded the proscriptions of Sulla with favor, or that he was otherwise than shocked by the wholesale robberies for which the proscription paved the way.
Sulla had then succeeded in crushing the Marian faction, and the Sullan proscriptions had taken place, and were nominally over.
The Kalends of June had been fixed by Sulla as the day on which the slaughter legalized by the proscriptions should cease.
Here at Reims, as elsewhere, proscriptions and confiscations were the order of the day.
The extensive range and the worst enormities of the proscriptions and confiscations probably arose not so much from Sulla's own wish as from this spirit of indifference, which in his position indeed was hardly more pardonable.
Arrests and proscriptions are continually taking place, and difference of religious opinions is the real and only cause.
In the sanguinary civil wars and murderous proscriptions which resulted from the ambitions of the leaders, life for the Roman people was of extremely uncertain tenure.
The proscriptionsand massacres of Sylla and the two triumvirates could but produce a society which would witness bloodshed with apathy, if not with delight.
He had been sent to Paris to negotiate a loan, and he ascribes his failure, not so much to the poverty of the land, as to the absence of peace essential to prosperity, and this arose from the successive proscriptions which had desolated Spain.
It used its authority in such unsparing proscriptions that even the royalists became alarmed and appealed to de Martignac, the royal commissioner accompanying Angoulême, pointing out the evils to be apprehended from such ferocity.
The whole volume was written with the greatest rapidity, in the midst of evolutions, and revolutions, and persecutions, and proscriptions of all who interested me in Italy.
There have been thousands of these proscriptions within the last month in the Exarchate, or (to speak modernly) the Legations.
I am, at present, occupied principally about these unhappy proscriptions and exiles, which have taken place here on account of politics.
When the head and hands[286] were brought to Rome, Antonius happened to be holding an election of magistrates, and when he heard the news and saw what had been done, he called out that the proscriptions were now at an end.
This was the first instance in Rome of head money being offered and paid; but the example was followed in the proscriptions of Sulla, and those of the triumviri Lepidus, M.
Plutarch tells us that he went to his Tusculan retreat, and that on receiving news of the proscriptions he determined to remove to Astura, on the sea-side, in order that he might be ready to escape into Macedonia.
He did not suffer in the proscriptions of Antony and Augustus, as did his father and uncle and his cousin.
In the Var, for example, pillages and proscriptions have begun with the month of May.
The proscriptions which we impose on you as a duty, are the sacred wrath of your country.
No proscriptions took place, and every man, on submitting to Government, was admitted to the undisturbed enjoyment of his property.
A romantic incident connected with the French Revolution happened to Lord Malmesbury in 1793, when the French nobility and clergy were flying from the sanguinary proscriptions of the Reign of Terror.
The inquisitors who hold office multiply, with extraordinary persistence and minuteness, proscriptions and vigorous measures for the forcible conversion of the nation.
Men's faces grew pale as they recalled the proscriptions of Sulla, and saw in the assassination of Cæsar the first act in a similar reign of terror.
The proscriptions of Sulla were to be renewed, and all debts were to be cancelled.
The scenes which now followed are only feebly illustrated by the proscriptions of Sulla in ancient Rome (see p.
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