Dio Cassius refers again and again to the Sullan cruelty.

But none of them give a reason for the abdication of Sulla.
[58] Vol.iii., p.386.I quote from Mr.Dickson's translation, as I do not read German.
[59] In defending Roscius Amerinus, while Sulla was still in power, he speaks of the Sullan massacres as "pugna Cannensis," a slaughter as foul, as disgraceful, as bloody as had been the defeat at Cannae.
[60] Mommsen, vol.iii., p.

385.
[61] Pro Sexto Roscio, ca.

xxi.: "Quod antea causam publicam nullam dixerim." He says also in the Brutus, ca.xc., "Itaque prima causa publica, pro Sex.

Roscio dicta." By "publica causa" he means a criminal accusation in distinction from a civil action.
[62] Pro Publio Quintio, ca.