Whether most of Sulla’s improvements were to prove lasting or not, it was at least apparent that this man had turned from a very able soldier into an equally able politician, and that his ultimate intention was to restore Rome’s stability for the benefit of all her people. Many of those reasonable citizens – and most reasonable people simply want to get on with their lives in peace – would have admitted that they would do better to help the process of regeneration than consistently oppose it. That it was necessary to work together in order to make the city of Rome once again what she ought to
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