Immediately following his death, Sextus was posthumously and mysteriously added to the list of proscribed persons drawn up by Sulla. As a result, all of his properties were confiscated from his heirs and sold. They were purchased by one of Sulla’s own freedmen, Chrysogonus, who – as it happens – was also in charge of adding people to the proscriptions list, for the knockdown price of two thousand sesterces.
