Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

Reading notes

• Consolation to His Mother Helvia §7 Sulla

  Lucius Cornelius Sulla, dictator (138-78 BC); here named as founder of the second Roman colony on Corsica.

• Consolation to Marcia §12 that surname

  Sulla's surname Felix, 'the Fortunate,' assumed even after the death of his son; Seneca's point that the greatest evil reaches even the most fortunate. (See Lucius Cornelius Sulla, dictator.)

• On Benefits §5.16.3 Lucius Sulla

  Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138–78 BC), victor of the civil war, dictator, and author of the proscriptions — 'remedies harsher than the dangers.'

• On the Shortness of Life §13.6 Sulla

  Lucius Cornelius Sulla, dictator (d. 78 BC), first to loose lions unchained in the circus.

• On Mercy §1.12 Lucius Sulla

  The dictator (138–78 BC) whose proscriptions and the butchery of thousands at the temple of Bellona make him, for Seneca, a tyrant in deed though he laid down his office.

• On Anger §1.20 Sulla

  L. Cornelius Sulla, the dictator (138–78 BC); Seneca dates the savage line 'Let them hate, provided they fear' to his bloody era.

• On Providence §3.7 Sulla

  Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138–78 BC), dictator whose proscriptions slaughtered thousands; the foil to Rutilius, who would not owe his recall to Sulla's bloody victory.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.11.4 Sulla

  Lucius Cornelius Sulla 'Felix' (138–78 BC), general and dictator notorious for the proscriptions; Seneca notes that he was at his deadliest when the blood rose in his face.