Secondary sources provide second-hand information and commentary from other researchers. Sulla then settled affairs "reparations, rewards, administrative and financial arrangements for the future" in Asia, staying there until 84BC. [48] The Parthian ambassador, Orobazus, was executed upon his return to Parthia for allowing this humiliation; the Parthians, however, ratified the treaty reached, which established the Euphrates as a clear boundary between Parthia and Rome. Mithridates also would equip Sulla with seventy or eighty ships and pay a war indemnity of two or three thousand talents. [104] When the Pontic cavalry attacked to interrupt the earthworks, the Romans almost broke; Sulla personally rallied his men on foot and stabilised the area. [96] Rome unsuccessfully defended Delos from an joint invasion by Athens and Pontus. Taking Action: Benefits for students that extend beyond the classroom. Published by at 29, 2022. Sulla and the proscriptions Lucius Cornelius Sulla was consul in 88 BC (and again in 80 BC) and dictator from 82 to 79 BC. Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to the truth of what actually happened during an historical event or time period. Demanding transfer to Catulus' (Marius' consular colleague) army, he received it. He then revived the office of dictator, which had been inactive since the Second Punic War, over a century before. The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in early summer around the same time the Athenian acropolis was taken. Even though the prosecutor declined to show up on the day of the trial, leading to Sulla's victory by default, Sulla's ambitions were frustrated. [17], One story, "as false as it is charming", relates that when Sulla was a baby, his nurse was carrying him around the streets, until a strange woman walked up to her and said, "Puer tibi et reipublicae tuae felix", which can be translated as, "The boy will be a source of luck to you and your state". [139][140], Sulla's goal now was to write his memoirs, which he finished in 78 BC, just before his death. [6] Keaveney places his departure to 93. He married again, with a woman called Aelia, of which nothing is known other than her name.