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- Sulllas eastern campaign to fight back Mithridates 87-85
- Violence broke out between him and Sulpicius 88- Plutarch, S, 7-8
- Carbo sends an army to meet Sulla with consuls 83 [to attack him]
- Rewarded veterans - Appian, TCW, 1.95-96
- Reforms annoyed; senate, tribunes, proconsuls
- Hated by Marius [allies with Sulpicius, JC nephew who Sulla put on proscription list]
- Pompey and Crassus fight for him
- Fights against Perpenna
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- Consul in 88bce
- Civil war in 83-81
- Dictatorship in 81-79
- Died in 78
- 87 oversaw elections
- Proscription lists Plutarch, S,
- Reforms
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- The senate; increased to 600, automatic recruitment for ex-quaestors, approve bills before assemblies
- Tribunes; can't veto or propose laws, removed judicial power, barred from further office
- Cursus honorum; reaffirmed age limits, 10 year gap between consulships, quaestors to 20-praetors to 8
- Proconsuls; senate decides appointments, annual commands, forbid govenors leaving provinces without approval, consuluar imperium remained superior to govenors
- Courts; 7 quaestiones perpetuae established, procedures and penalities laid out for each crime- clear, juries of senators
- Corn dole; abolished- poor had to reply on welathy patrons
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- Lepidus (cos 78) proposed to reinstate corn dole, restore tribunician power, restore land to proscribed and allow return of Marian exiles- ended up being declared enemy of state and fled
- Cotta (cos) allows tribunes to run for further office 75
- Quinticus (trib) unsuccessfully agitates for restoration of tribunician power 74
- Cos authorise more grain purchases, agitation for restoration of tribunician power 73
- Pompey and Crassus restore tribunician power 70
- Macer agitates for tribune rights 73-Sallust,Histories
- Sicinius killed for agitating to restore tribune rights- Sallust
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