hat of the provincial governors,
and might be exercised beyond the frontiers of Italy. However, in practise
the consuls were not regularly employed for overseas campaigns, since the
Senate now arrogated to itself what had previously been a prerogative of
the Assembly, namely, the right of selecting any person whatever to
exercise military _imperium_ in any sphere determined by itself. A new
field for the activity of the praetors arose from the establishment of
special jury courts for the trial of cases of bribery, treason, fraud,
peculation, assassination and assault with violence. These were modelled
on the court for damage suits brought against provincial officers, and
superseded the old procedure with its appeal from the verdict of the
magistrate to the Comitia. To provide a sufficient number of jurors for
these tribunals the membership of the Senate was increased from three
hundred to six hundred by enrolling equestrians who had supported Sulla.
This increased number was maintained by the annual admission of the twenty
ex-quaestors, whereby censors were rendered unnecessary for enrolling the
Senators. The administration, especially in its imperial aspects, was more
than ever concentrated in the Senate's hands.

*Pompey **"**the Great,**"** 79 B. C.* While Sulla was effecting his
settlement of affairs in Rome and Italy, the Marians in Sicily and Africa
were crushed by his lieutenant Cnaeus Pompey. Their leader Carbo was taken
and executed. In 82 B. C. Sulla had caused the Senate to confer upon
Pompey the command in this campaign with the _imperium_ of a propraetor,
although he had not yet held any public office. Having finished his task
Pompey demanded a triumph, an honor which previously had only been granted
to regular magistrates. Sulla at first opposed his wishes, but as Pompey
was insistent and defiant, he yielded to avoid a quarrel, and even
accorded him the name of Magnus or the Great. Pompey celebrated his
triumph 12 March, 79 B. C.

*Sulla's retirement and death, 78 B. C.* Sulla did not seek political
power for its own sake, and, after carrying his reforms into effect, he
resigned his dictatorship in 79 B. C. He retired to enjoy a life of ease
and pleasure on his Campanian estate, relying for his personal security
and that of his measures upon his veterans and the Cornelian freedmen. In
the following year he died at the age of sixty. Sulla's genius was rather
military than political. Fond though he was of se