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[75] The following year Cinna was chosen consul for the
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second time, and Marius for the seventh time; to whom, notwithstanding his banishment and proscription, the augury of the seven young eaglets was yet fulfilled. But he died in the first month of his consulship, while forming all sorts of terrible designs against Sulla. Cinna caused Valerius Flaccus to be chosen in his place and sent him to Asia, and when Flaccus lost his life Cinna chose Carbo as his successor.

The Civil Wars. Appian. Horace White. London. MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. 1899.

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