Sulla’s First March on Rome King Mithridates VI orders the murder of all Roman and Italian citizens in Asia during the spring of 88 BC elected Sulla, appointed commander of Roman forces arrayed against Mithridates Consul Marius petitioned Publius Sulpicius Rufus (121-88 BC) for the nomination to command the campaign against tribune Mithridates. Marius is sixty-eight years old when he makes this request. Sulpicius uses his bodyguards called, the to coerce the Senate and the populous to support his nomination “anti-Senate” of Marius as the commander of Roman forces flees the Senate chambers when Sulpicius henchmen threaten the Senate and force a vote for Marius Sulla arrives at Nola and joins his forces there before the arrival of military tribunes appointed by Marius Sulla pleads his case to the men (many of them his veterans from the Social War) and the legionnaires rally to his cause and stone the tribunes sent by Marius Sulla marches on Rome with his forces and kill Sulpicius. Marius escapes but Sulla is the first to use his forces against Consul Rome. After consolidating his victory, Sulla introduced legislation that prohibited any laws that did not pass through the Senate first, increased the Senate with three hundred new members, rescinded the last legislation that Sulpicius enacted, and he forbade from ever holding any higher office than a position. tribunes tribune Sulla appointed Gnaeus Octavius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna as appointed his former Quintus as the Consuls, coconsul of the forces remaining in and departed for Asia to battle Mithridates proconsul
Sulla’s First March on Rome King Mithridates VI orders the murder of all Roman and Italian citizens in Asia during the spring of 88 BC elected Consul Sulla, appointed commander of Roman forces arrayed against Mithridates Marius petitioned tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus (121-88 BC) for the nomination to command the campaign against Mithridates. Marius is sixty-eight years old when he makes this request. Sulpicius uses his bodyguards called, the “anti-Senate” to coerce the Senate and the populous to support his nomination of Marius as the commander of Roman forces flees the Senate chambers when Sulpicius henchmen threaten the Senate and force a vote for Marius Sulla arrives at Nola and joins his forces there before the arrival of military tribunes appointed by Marius Sulla pleads his case to the men (many of them his veterans from the Social War) and the legionnaires rally to his cause and stone the tribunes sent by Marius Sulla marches on Rome with his forces and kill Sulpicius. Marius escapes but Sulla is the first Consul to use his forces against Rome. After consolidating his victory, Sulla introduced legislation that prohibited any laws that did not pass through the Senate first, increased the Senate with three hundred new members, rescinded the last legislation that Sulpicius enacted, and he forbade tribunes from ever holding any higher office than a tribune position. Sulla appointed Gnaeus Octavius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna as Consuls, appointed his former coconsul Quintus as the proconsul of the forces remaining in and departed for Asia to battle Mithridates
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