The Lex Cornelia paints a picture of a scared and vengeful segment of society who had spent ten years killing one another on battlefields and absolutely were not over those wartime resentments. It exposes a legal system that appears to be completely rotten with false evidence, corrupt magistrates and vindictive judges, and a Rome that is riddled with mysterious deaths by poisoning and plagued by gangs of armed men roaming the streets, all of which Sulla needed to fix.
