Cornelius Sylla

Also known as: Sylla · Family: Roman · Role: senator · First appears: Annals II (9)

Life events

• Tiberius degraded five prodigal senators or allowed them to leave the Senate.(Annals II (9) · 📍 the Senate)
  • With: Tiberius Vibidius Varro Marius Nepos Appius Appianus Quintus Vitellius
  • “so he degraded from the Senate (or suffered to quit it of their own accord) Vibidius Varro, Marius Nepos, Appius Appianus, Cornelius Sylla, and Quintus Vitellius, all prodigals, and only through debauchery indigent.”

Annals II (9)

• enemies with Tiberius (Tiberius degraded Sylla from the Senate.) “But, as he relieved the honest poverty of the virtuous, so he degraded from the Senate (or suffered to quit it of their own accord) Vibidius Varro, Marius Nepos, Appius Appianus, Cornelius Sylla, and Quintus Vitellius, all prodigals, and only through debauchery indigent.”
• enemies with Mithridates (Mithridates and Sylla were opposing parties.) “for that these were they who had leagued with Mithridates against Sylla, and with Anthony against Augustus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.