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As the senate clawed more power from the people, it was inevitable that a few would rise above others, and take over command and influence with an army. Marius, Sulla, and the civil war that followed would just be another log on the funeral pyre of the Roman republic.
\\n\\nPart III of The Fall of the Roman Republic.
\\n\\nDr Rhiannon Evans (Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
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