As the soldiers were the proletariat of Italy, the revolution became social as well as political. […] A jury carefully selected, with moral support from soldiers of Pompeius stationed around the court, would bring in the inevitable verdict. […] Had not Sulla enriched his partisans, from senators down to soldiers and freedmen? […] While at Apollonia, Octavianus made himself known to the soldiers and officers of Caesar’s great army of the Balkans. […] The supreme art of politics is patent to rob adversaries of their adherents and soldiers, their programme and their catchwords.