The Fragments of the Histories

From the life of Sulla by Plutarch, only the last chapters must be considered by us, in which Sulla's dying and subsequent burial are treated. Those things, moreover, which are narrated in chapter 36 concerning Sulla's adulterous life, seem to be taken from Sallust, since Plutarch cites him as a witness to the same matter 6) Nicolaus of Damascus seems to have narrated similar things, cf. fr. 81 (F. H. G. III p. 416) in Athen. V p. 261 C. We do not know where he obtained these. 7) Comp. of Lysander and Sulla c. 3. and it agrees well with the Sallustian description of Sulla's character. 8) Cf. fr. I 37 D: 'Otherwise insane by his own opinion and that of others of women' (namely love or desire), and fr. I 29 D: 'Soon it is shameful to speak of such disgraces in such a man' (cf. Schol. Gron. p. 434 Orell.). Regarding the actual death of Sulla,