more embarked, and not knowing where to land without encountering an enemy, he spent the winter at sea, expecting every hour the return of a messenger from his son, whom he had sent to solicit protection from the African prince, Mandras’tal. 9.  After long expectation, instead of the messenger, his son himself arrived, having escaped from the inhospitable court of that monarch, where he had been kept, not as a friend, but as a prisoner, and had returned just time enough to prevent his father from sharing the same fate. 10.  In this situation they were informed that Cinna, one of their party who had remained at Rome, had put himself at the head of a large army, collected out of the Italian states, who had espoused his cause.  Nor was it long before they joined their forces at the gates of Rome.  Sylla was at that time absent in his command against Mithri’dates. 11.  Cinna marched into the city; but Ma’rius stopped, and refused to enter, alleging, that having been banished by a public decree, it was necessary to have another to authorise his return.  It was thus that he desired to give his meditated cruelties the appearance of justice; and while he was about to destroy thousands, to pretend an implicit veneration for the laws. 12.  An assembly of the people being called, they began to reverse his banishment; but they had scarcely gone through three of the tribes, when, incapable of restraining his desire of revenge, he entered the city at the head of his guards, and massacred all who had been obnoxious to him, without remorse or pity. 13.  Several who sought to propitiate the tyrant’s rage, were murdered by his command in his presence; many even of those who had never offended him were put to death; and, at last, even his own officers never approached him but with terror. 14.  Having in this manner satiated his revenge, he next abrogated all the laws which were enacted by his rival, and then made himself consul with Cinna. 15.  Thus gratified in his two favourite passions, vengeance and ambition, having once saved his country, and now deluged it with blood, at last, as if willing to crown the pile of slaughter which he had made, with his own body, he died the month after, not without suspicion of having hastened his end. 16.  In the mean time these accounts were brought to Sylla, who had been sent against Mithrida’tes, and who was performing many signal exploits against him; hastily concluding a peace, therefore, he returned home to take vengeance on his enemies at Rome. 17.  Nothing could intimidate Cinna from attempting to repel his opponent.  Being joined by Car’bo, (now elected in the room of Vale’rius, who had been slain) together with young Ma’rius, who inherited all the abilities and the ambition of his father, he determined to send over part of the forces he had raised in Dalma’tia to oppose Sylla before he entered Italy.  Some troops were accordingly embarked; but being dispersed by a storm, the others that had not yet put to sea, absolutely refused to go. 18.