Sylla

Also known as: Lucius Cornelius Sylla / Lucius Sylla · Family: dictator · Role: dictator · First appears: Julius Caesar 1

At Rome, Sylla opposed Julius Caesar’s refusal to divorce Cornelia. As a result, Julius Caesar lost his priesthood, his wife’s dowry, and his estates before withdrawing from Rome. Sylla was also the grandfather of Pompeia.

Later, Sylla had demolished the victory trophies honoring Caius Marius, which Julius Caesar restored. At Modena, Sylla besieged Decius Brutus in an effort to drive him from the province granted to him by Caesar and confirmed by the senate; this made Sylla odious to Augustus, who joined the nobles after Mark Antony opposed him.

Cornelius Epicadius was Sylla’s freedman and his apparitor in the Augural priesthood. He completed the final book of Sylla’s unfinished Commentaries, while Faustus, Sylla’s son, much loved him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Julius Caesar lost his priesthood, dowry, and estates, then withdrew from Rome.(Julius Caesar 1 · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “Resisting all the efforts of the dictator Sylla to induce him to divorce Cornelia, he suffered the penalty of being stripped of his sacerdotal office, his wife’s dowry, and his own patrimonial estates; and, being identified with the adverse faction, was compelled to withdraw from Rome.”
• Julius Caesar restored Caius Marius's victory trophies that Sylla had demolished.(Julius Caesar 11)
  • With: Julius Caesar Caius Marius
  • “he restored the trophies erected in honour of Caius Marius, on account of his victories over Jugurtha, the Cimbri, and the Teutoni, which had been demolished by Sylla”
• Augustus joined the nobles after Mark Antony opposed him and Sylla besieged Decius Brutus at Modena.(Augustus 10 · 📍 Modena)
  • With: Augustus Mark Antony Decius Brutus
  • “he went over to the party of the nobles, to whom he perceived Sylla to be odious, chiefly for endeavouring to drive Decius Brutus, whom he besieged in the town of Modena”
• Cornelius Epicadius became a freedman of Lucius Cornelius Sylla.(Grammarians 12)
  • With: Cornelius Epicadius
  • “CORNELIUS EPICADIUS, a freedman of Lucius Cornelius Sylla, the dictator”
• Cornelius Epicadius served as Lucius Cornelius Sylla’s apparitor in the Augural priesthood.(Grammarians 12)
  • With: Cornelius Epicadius
  • “was his apparitor in the Augural priesthood”
• Cornelius Epicadius completed the unfinished last book of Sylla’s Commentaries.(Grammarians 12)
  • With: Cornelius Epicadius
  • “He completed the last book of Sylla’s Commentaries, which his patron had left unfinished.”

Julius Caesar 1

• enemies with Julius Caesar “Resisting all the efforts of the dictator Sylla to induce him to divorce Cornelia, he suffered the penalty of being stripped of his sacerdotal office, his wife’s dowry, and his own patrimonial estates; and, being identified with the adverse faction, was compelled to withdraw from Rome.”

Julius Caesar 6

• younger kin: Pompeia “grand-daughter of Lucius Sylla”

Julius Caesar 11

• with Caius Marius (Sylla demolished trophies honoring Marius.) “the trophies erected in honour of Caius Marius, on account of his victories over Jugurtha, the Cimbri, and the Teutoni, which had been demolished by Sylla”
• enemies with Caius Marius “the trophies erected in honour of Caius Marius, on account of his victories over Jugurtha, the Cimbri, and the Teutoni, which had been demolished by Sylla”

Julius Caesar 45

• enemies with Julius Caesar “This circumstance gave origin to the expression of Sylla, who often advised the nobles to beware of ‘the ill-girt boy.’”

Julius Caesar 74

• enemies with Julius Caesar “Cornelius Phagitas, who had dogged him in the night when he was sick and a fugitive, with the design of carrying him to Sylla, and from whose hands he had escaped with some difficulty by giving him a bribe.”

Augustus 10

• enemies with Decius Brutus “He went over to the party of the nobles, to whom he perceived Sylla to be odious, chiefly for endeavouring to drive Decius Brutus, whom he besieged in the town of Modena, out of the province, which had been given him by Caesar, and confirmed to him by the senate.”

Grammarians 12

• protégé: Cornelius Epicadius “CORNELIUS EPICADIUS, a freedman of Lucius Cornelius Sylla, the dictator”
• child: Faustus “much beloved by his son Faustus”
• servant: Cornelius Epicadius “was his apparitor in the Augural priesthood”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.