There were two Servile wars in Sicily.  Plutarch alludes to the first which broke out B.C. 134, and is described in the Excerpts from the thirty-fourth book of Diodorus.  Diodorus says that Eunus died of this disease in prison at Morgantina in Sicily.]

[Footnote 302:  This town, also called Puteoli, the modern Pozzuolo, was near Sulla’s residence.  It was originally a Greek town; and afterwards a Roman colonia.  Plutarch simply says that Granius “owed a public debt.”  Valerius Maximus (ix. 3) states that Granius was a Princeps of Puteoli and was slow in getting in the money which had been promised by the Decuriones of Puteoli towards the rebuilding of the Capitol.  Sulla had said that nothing remained to complete his good fortune, except to see the Capitol dedicated.  No wonder that the delay of Granius irritated such a man.]

[Footnote 303:  The Roman words Postumus, Postuma, seem to have been generally used to signify a child born after the father’s death.  But they also signified a child born after the father had made a will.  The word simply means “last.”  We use the expression “Posthumous child;” but the meaning of the word is often misunderstood. (On the effect of the birth of a Postumus on a father’s will, see Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities, art.  “Heres, Roman.”)

Appian (Civil Wars, i. 101) speaks of Sulla’s death.  He saw his death coming and hastened to make his will:  he died in his sixtieth year, the most fortunate man in his end and in everything else, both in name and estimation; if indeed, the historian wisely adds, a man should think it good fortune to have obtained all his wishes.

Sulla had the following children:—­Cornelia, by Ilia; she married Q. Pompeius Rufus who was murdered B.C. 88, and she may have died before her father:  Cornelius Sulla, a son by Metella, who died, as Plutarch has said, before his father:  Faustus Cornelius Sulla and Fausta Cornelia, the twin children by Metella, who were both young when their father died.  Faustus lost his life in Africa, when he was fighting on the Pompeian side.  Fausta’s first husband was C. Memmius, from whom she was divorced.  She then married T. Annius Milo B.C. 55, who caught her in the act of adultery with the historian Sallustius, who was soundly hided by the husband and not let of till he had paid a sum of money.  Sallustius did not forget this.]

[Footnote 304:  It was considered a mark of intentional disrespect or of disapprobation, when a Roman made no mention of his nearest kin or friends in his will; and in certain cases, the person who was passed over could by legal process vindicate the imputation thus thrown on him. (See the article “Testamentum,” in Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities, under the head “Querela Inofficiosi.”) Sulla did not like Cn.  Pompeius.  The only reason for keeping on terms with him was that he saw his talents and so wished to ally him to his family.  For the same reason Sulla wished to put C. Julius Caesar to death (Caesar. 1):  he predicted that he would be the ruin of the aristocratical party.  Sulla made his friend Lucius Lucullus the guardian of his children and intrusted him with the final correction of his Memoirs.  (See the Life of Lucullus, c. 1).]