Not only was the victim's life proscribed, but his property was proscribed also; and the man who busied himself in carrying out the great butcher's business assiduously, ardently, and unintermittingly, was rewarded by the property so obtained.

Two talents[56] was to be the fee for mere assassination; but the man who knew how to carry on well the work of an informer could earn many talents.

It was thus that fortunes were made in the last days of Sulla.

It was not only those 520 who were named for killing.

They were but the firstlings of the flock--the few victims selected before the real workmen understood how valuable a trade proscription and confiscation might be made.