Metellus Pius led an army to victory for Sulla and became consul with him in 80 B.C. […] The younger Lucullus, proconsul of Macedonia, carried the arms of Rome in victory through Thrace to the shore of Pontus and the mouth of the river Danube. […] In every class of society the defeated and dispossessed, eager for revenge, looked to Caesar’s consulate, or Caesar’s victory and the rewards of greed and ambition in a war against the Sullan oligarchy. […] Fortune, the devotion of his veteran legionaries and the divided counsels of his adversaries secured the crowning victory. […] Spain might bring them victory after all.