Domination is never the less effective for being veiled. […] But even Sulla could not abolish his own example and preclude a successor to his domination. […] His rule was far worse than the violent and illegal domination of Pompeius. […] Yet Cato, no sooner dead, asserted the old domination over his nephew more powerfully than ever in life. […] That would preclude competition for a post of vantage and armed domination.