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Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and dictator during the last century of the Roman Republic. Lucius was born into an impoverished branch of the Cornelii, and he lived a poor and dissolute existence until he received two family inheritances that finally gave him the financial stature to run for office. Sulla came from a patrician family, served as consul, and led military campaigns in North Africa, and against Mithradates of Pontus. In his abscence he was declared a public enemy in Rome by his opponents. Sulla returned with his army to Italy and marched on Rome. His defeat of his enemy gained him the dictatorship. Sulla was the first man to use the army to establish a personal autocracy at R