Ceteris enim bellis maximeque civilibus contentionem rei publicae causa faciebat: <contendebat> Sulla cum Sulpicio de iure legum quas per vim [con. Sulla] latas esse dicebat;
In other wars, and particularly civil wars, the conflict originated from a political issue: Sulla fought Sulpicius about the validity of laws which according to Sulla had been passed by violence.
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