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Sulla, who was called the Fortunate, counted two things among his greatest pieces of fortune : the friendship of Pius Metellus, and the fact that he had not razed Athens, but had spared the city. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Sulla, chap. vi. (454 D), chap. xiv. (460 E), and the Comparison of Lysander and Sulla, chap. v. (478 B).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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