Sulla set about not only bringing the senate up to its proper number, but also proposed the addition of three hundred new senators. This was originally the brainchild of Livius Drusus who had intended to bring the equestrian class more into the ranks of government. At the time the senate had rejected that idea with the same vehemence that it had rejected the idea of citizenship for the Italians. Now the measure was accepted with hardly a murmur.
