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It is impossible to judge of the prudence of Atticus by which he escaped so many dangers with -out considering about the times in which he lived the first danger he escaped was from his being related to P. Sulpicius who was a tri [illegible] of the [illegible] People and acted as [illegible] A.U.C. 665 the Romans resolving to make war against King Mithridates & gave ye comand of ye army to Scylla when Marius came back to Rome he was very angry & he engaged Supicicus to [illegible] the people to take the comand away from Silla and give it to him -self upon which he sent two officers to Silla to take away his comand who were sto -ned to death by Silla's soldiers Silla advanced imediatly to Rom were he was