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Lucius Cornelius Sulla appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publicae constituendae causa, which was functionally identical to the dictatorate rei gerendae causa except that it lacked any set time limit, although Sulla held this office for over two years before he voluntarily abdicated and retired from public life.
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Lucius and Cornelius
The father of Julia the Elder was the Emperor Augustus, and Julia was his only natural child from his second marriage to Scribonia, who had close blood relations with Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
The reforms of Lucius Cornelius Sulla required a ten year period between holding another term in the same office.
Florence was established by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally Fluentia, owing the fact that it was built between two rivers, which was later corrupted to Florentia.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
There were several wars from 91 BC to 82 BC, although from 82 BC to 80 BC, the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla was purging Rome of his political enemies.
* 86 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
Serious damage was inflicted on the partly built temple by Lucius Cornelius Sulla's sack of Athens in 86 BC.
When Lucius Cornelius Sulla was dictator he severely curtailed the tribunes of the plebeians by invalidating their power of veto and making it illegal for them to bring laws before the Concilium Plebis without the Senate's consent.
It is speculated that Vitruvius served with Julius Caesar's Chief Engineer Lucius Cornelius Balbus.
* Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and politician
* 298 BC: The Samnites defeat the Romans under Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus in the Battle of Camerinum, first battle of the Third Samnite War
* Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus and Lucius Valerius Messalla Volesus ( or Gaius Ateius Capito ) become Roman consuls.
* Servius Cornelius Cethegus and Lucius Visellius Varro become consuls.
* Lucius Cornelius Sulla secures the capture of Jugurtha.
* Consuls: Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior.
* June 25 – Pope Lucius I succeeds Pope Cornelius as the 22nd pope.
They record over 200 triumphs, starting with three mythical triumphs of Romulus in 753 BCE, and ending with that of Lucius Cornelius Balbus in 19 BCE.
His feast day is 5 March, on which date he is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology in the following terms: " In the cemetery of Callistus on the Via Appia, Rome, burial of Saint Lucius, Pope, successor of Saint Cornelius.
During Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Cinna and Gnaeus Papirius Carbo's regime, Catiline played no major role, but he remained politically secure.
He later supported Lucius Cornelius Sulla in the civil war of 84 BC – 81 BC.
To set the plan in motion, Gaius Cornelius and Lucius Vargunteius were to assassinate Cicero early in the morning on November 7, 63 BC, but Quintus Curius, a senator, who would eventually become one of Cicero's chief informants warned Cicero of the threat through his mistress Fulvia.
Crassus began his public career as a military commander under Lucius Cornelius Sulla during his civil war.
After the Marian purges and the sudden death subsequently of Gaius Marius, the surviving consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna ( better-known as father-in-law of Julius Caesar ) imposed proscriptions on those surviving Roman senators and equestrians who had supported Lucius Cornelius Sulla in his 88 BC march on Rome and overthrow of the traditional Roman political arrangements.
Lucius and Sulla
* Lucius Cornelius Cinna, consul four consecutive times 87 – 84 BC, a popularist leader allied with Gaius Marius against Sulla, and at the time of his death the father-in-law of Julius Caesar.
Cinna's influence in Rome exacerbated the tensions which existed between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Cinna ’ s son, the younger Lucius Cornelius Cinna, fled Italy when Sulla returned, most likely to Spain.
He played an important role in the dispute between Gaius Marius and Lucius Sulla, allowing Marius to return to Rome for his seventh consulship.
* 138 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman politician, dictator 82-79 BC ( d. 78 BC )
* Lucius Cornelius Sulla elected praetor urbanus.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, age 50, becomes the first Roman commander to march on Rome with his army and to capture the city by force.
** The Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea.
* First Mithridatic War: Lucius Cornelius Sulla again defeats Archelaus in the decisive Battle of Orchomenus.
Lucius and appointed
The succession of militarily distinguished governors who were subsequently appointed suggests that enemies of Rome were posing a difficult challenge, and Lucius Alfenus Senecio's report to Rome in 207 describes barbarians " rebelling, over-running the land, taking loot and creating destruction ".
Once the Roman Senate resumed their consular elections in 216 BC, they appointed Gaius Terentius Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paullus as consuls.
* 69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry, he became bishop of Rome in 254, having served as archdeacon of Pope Lucius I, who appointed Stephen his successor.
* January 10 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is adopted by Galba and appointed to deputy Roman Emperor.
* Gaius Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus are appointed consuls.
Lucius Papirius Cursor is appointed dictator for the second time and wins a great victory at Longula over the Samnites.
Meanwhile, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is appointed as consul to replace Publicola.
Antoninus Pius, hearing of his fame, appointed him tutor to his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
For example, Caiaphas was appointed High Priest of Herod's Temple by Prefect Valerius Gratus and deposed by Syrian Legate Lucius Vitellius.
It appears that Lucius appointed a legate, Cardinal Icmar, the Bishop of Tusculum, to travel to England and oversee the project, but Lucius died before anything was accomplished.
::: "… it was determined that a dictator should be appointed to retrieve their shattered fortunes, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was appointed by universal consent.
In the same year he was appointed to succeed Lucius Licinius Lucullus in the government of Cilicia and the command of the war against Mithradates.
Then in 310 BC he was again appointed as a legate under Lucius Papirius Cursor, and fought in a major battle at Longulae against the Samnites.
* Gaius Baebius, appointed by Lucius Julius Caesar in 89 BC.
The office was revived during the Roman Civil War by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, who was appointed dictator legibus faciendis et rei publicae constituendae causa ( dictator for the making of laws and for the settling of the constitution ).
An early instance of mass proscription took place in 82 BC, when Lucius Cornelius Sulla was appointed dictator rei publicae constituendae (" Dictator for the Reconstitution of the Republic ").
A member of the patrician gens Quinctia, and brother to Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, he served as a military tribune in the Second Punic war and in 205 BC he was appointed propraetor in Tarentum.
McCarthy moved with his parents to San Francisco, California in 1866. he was appointed by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson to the office after the term of Lucius E. Pinkham.
* 18-36 Caiaphas, appointed High Priest of Herod's Temple by Prefect Valerius Gratus, deposed by Syrian Legate Lucius Vitellius
* Lucius Licinius L. f. ( L. n .) Lucullus, praetor in 104 BC, appointed by the senate to the command in Sicily during the Second Servile War ; victorious in the field, he was unable to capture the stronghold of the slaves, and surrendered his command, but not before destroying his camp and supplies out of spite.
Under the emperor Trajan was appointed patron of the city Senator Lucius Licinius Sura.
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