Cinna’s vacant chair was never filled.2 Now sole consul, Carbo spent all of 84 BC raising an army. Despite the mutiny in Ancona, it was not hard to raise soldiers. Under Cinna’s guidance the Senate already passed a decree recognizing both citizenship and voting equality for the Italians. Recruiters made the obvious case that when Sulla came back all these advances would be canceled. Even if they cared little for the dynamics of high Roman politics, every Italian could agree that civitas and suffragium were worth fighting for. As long as Sulla remained hostile to the idea of Italian equality,
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