Note 93 — Chapter XVIII · MARIUS AND SULLA

[“The battle of the Colline Gate was one of the few great and decisive battles which are recorded in the history of Rome,” says Ihne.e In spite of all this, he says, we know almost absolutely nothing of the position of the armies and the progress of the fight, “and this cannot be vouched for with any degree of confidence, as the two principal authorities cannot be satisfactorily made to harmonise.” Appianm says that each side lost 50,000; Orosiusn sets the number at only 11,000.]