Metella, from her husband
Manius Glabrio.[290] though she was then with child, and married her
to Pompeius. AEmilia died in the house of Pompeius in childbirth.
Lucretius Ofella,[291] who had taken Praeneste, became a candidate for
the consulship, and canvassed for it. Sulla at first attempted to stop
him; but on Lucretius entering the Forum supported by a large party,
Sulla sent one of his centurions to kill Lucretius, himself the while
sitting on his tribunal in the temple of Castor and Pollux, and
looking down upon the murder. The bystanders seized the centurion and
brought him before the tribunal; but Sulla bidding them stop their
noise, declared that he had ordered the centurion to kill Lucretius,
and they must let him go.

XXXIV. The triumph[292] of Sulla was magnificent for the splendour and
rarity of the regal spoils; but the exiles formed a greater ornament
to it and a noble spectacle. The most illustrious and wealthy of the
citizens followed in the procession with chaplets on their heads,
calling Sulla their saviour and father, inasmuch as through him they
were restored to their country, their children, and their wives. When
the triumph was over, Sulla before the assembled people gave an
account of all the events of his life, mentioning with equal
particularity his good fortune and his great deeds, and in conclusion
he bade them salute him by the name of Eutyches,[293] for this is the
nearest word to express the Latin Felix: and when he wrote to Greeks
or had any business to transact with them, he called himself
Epaphroditus. In our country also, on the trophies of Sulla, there is
the inscription: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Epaphroditus. As Metella bore
him twins, Sulla named the male Faustus, and the female Fausta: for
the Romans apply the name Faustus to what is fortunate and gladsome.
Sulla indeed trusted so far to his good fortune rather than to his
acts, that, though he had put many persons to death, and had made so
many innovations and changes in the state, he laid down the
dictatorship,[294] and allowed the people to have the full control of
the consular elections, without going near them, and all the while
walking about in the Forum, and exposing himself to any one who might
choose to call him to account, just like a private person. Contrary to
Sulla's wish, a bold man, and an enemy of his, was likely to be
elected consul, Marcus Lepidus,[295] not for his own merits, but
because the people wished to plea