Yet this was no longer true. The senate had indeed been subject to the dictates of Marius and Sulpicius, but on the news that Sulla was marching on the city with six legions, senate and people came together in the face of the impending threat. Even all of Sulla’s own officers apart from one quaestor were so horrified by Sulla’s intentions that they left the army and fled to Rome. There, the senate sent two praetors to inform Sulla that his march on Rome was forbidden.
