The city lay at his mercy.

His first act, an order for the slaughter of 6,000 Samnite prisoners, was a fit prelude to his conduct in the city.

Every effort was made to eradicate the last trace of Marian blood and sympathy from the city.

A list of men, declared to be outlaws and public enemies, was exhibited in the Forum, and a succession of wholesale murders and confiscations throughout Rome and Italy, made the name of Sulla forever infamous.
Having received the title of Dictator, and celebrated a splendid triumph for the Mithradatic war, he carried (80-79) his political measures.
The main object of these was to invest the Senate, the thinned ranks of which he filled with his own creatures, with full control over the state, over every magistrate and every province.
In 79 he resigned his dictatorship and went to Puteoli, where he died the next year, from a loathsome disease brought on by his excesses.
THE REFORMS OF SULLA.
Sulla restricted the power of the magistrates to the advantage of the Senate.

Senators were alone made eligible for the tribuneship, and no former Tribune could hold any curule office.