Willems, Le Sénat de la république romaine I (1878), 427 ff., established this total for the Senate of 55 B.C. […] By armed force he might have established sole rule, but by that alone and not in solid permanence. […] The memory of Sulla was loathed even by those who stood by the order he had established. […] The restored oligarchy, established by violence and confiscation, perpetuated a narrow tradition. […] The origin of it cannot be established: on names in ‘-anius’, cf.