All who had connections with him shared the same fate.

The merciless genius of Sylla had its full scope; and the streets of Athens were not the only ones which ran with blood.
At this period, the sword, glutted with foreign slaughter, turned its edge upon the bowels of the Roman republic itself; and presented a scene of cruelties and treasons enough almost to obliterate the memory of all the external devastations.

I intended, my lord, to have proceeded in a sort of method in estimating the numbers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record.

But I am obliged to alter my design.

Such a tragical uniformity of havoc and murder would disgust your lordship as much as it would me; and I confess I already feel my eyes ache by keeping them so long intent on so bloody a prospect.