ANCIENT ROME "Sulla had victimized by his slaves GRANIO Magistrate Puzzolo because differed payments". Lucio Cornelio Silla (138 BC - 78 BC) and Roman military dictator in 79 BC after a long and glorious career he retired from political life and take refuge in his villa in Cuma; seriously ill; he devoted himself to compiling his memoirs; and dictated a code of laws for settling differences arose in the nearby town of Pozzuoli. Hearing that GRANIO; magistrate of the town; had a debt towards it and postponed the payment in expectation of his imminent death with the intent to escape unpunished pecuniary burden; summoned him to his room and made him choke under his eyes from the servants. The next day he was dead. Table illustrated n. 30 from the "Roman History" by Charles Rollin (January 30; 1661 - September 14 1741); "engraved in branches of invention from light Sig. Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano and etched by Mr Raffaele Persichini". Rome; 1833