ice. But Cinna received the support of the army in Campania, recalled
Marius, and made peace with the Samnites still under arms by granting them
Roman citizenship. Marius landed in Etruria, raised an army there, and he
and Cinna advanced on Rome. They forced the capitulation of their
opponents, had Cinna reinstated as consul, and had the banishment of
Marius revoked; Sulla's laws were repealed, and his property confiscated.
Then ensued a massacre of the leading senators, including Octavius the
consul. On 1 January, 86, Marius entered upon his seventh consulship and
died a few days later. His successor, Lucius Valerius Flaccus, was sent to
supersede Sulla, a mission which cost him his life, as related before. In
85 B. C., the war with Mithradates was at an end and the Marians had to
face the prospect of the return of Sulla at the head of a victorious army.
The consuls Cinna and Carbo proceeded to raise troops to oppose him. They
illegally prolonged their office for the next year (84) and made
preparations to cross the Adriatic and meet Sulla in Macedonia. But the
army gathered for this purpose at Brundisium mutinied and murdered Cinna.
Carbo prevented the election of a successor and held office as sole
consul. The Senate had previously begun negotiations with Sulla in an
effort to prevent further civil war. He now demanded the restitution of
property and honors both for himself and all those who had taken refuge
with him. The Senate was inclined to yield, but was prevented by Carbo.

In the spring of 83 B. C. Sulla landed at Brundisium, with an army of
40,000 veterans from whom he exacted an oath of allegiance to himself. He
made known his intentions of respecting all privileges granted to the
Italians, to prevent their joining his enemies. Still the bulk of the new
citizens, particularly in Samnium and Etruria, supported the Marian party.
Sulla was joined at once by the young Cnaeus Pompey, who had raised an
army on his own authority in Picenum, and by other men of influence. In
the operations which followed the leaders of the Marians showed themselves
lacking in cooeperation and military skill. Sulla penetrated into Campania,
where he defeated one consul Norbanus, at Mount Tifata. The other consul
Scipio Asiaticus, entered into negotiations with him, and was deserted by
his army which went over to Sulla.

In the following year Sulla advanced into Latium and won a hard fought
victory over the younger Marius, now consul,