Vem daterade Sulla?

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, känd som Sulla, född 138 f.Kr., död 78 f.Kr., romersk fältherre och statsman (82 - 81 f.Kr. diktator). Under sin tid som diktator ansvarade Sulla för att antalet senatorer fördubblades. Sulla hade under sin levnadstid flera dispyter med Marius gällande makten i romarriket, där de två i respektive ordning anses representera optimaterna respektive popularerna i romersk politik. Han var far till Faustus Cornelius Sulla och farbror till Publius Cornelius Sulla.

Metrobius (Ancient Greek: Μητρόβιος; lived 1st century BC) was an actor and singer, in the Roman Republic. He was said to be the lover of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, the famed general and dictator. Metrobius is mentioned twice by Plutarch in his Parallel Lives, who clearly disapproves of his relationship with Sulla. These excerpts are as follows.

"It was this laxity, as it seems, which produced in him [Sulla] a diseased propensity to amorous indulgence and an unrestrained voluptuousness, from which he did not refrain even in his old age, but continued his youthful love for Metrobius, an actor."

"However, even though he [Sulla] had such a wife at home, he consorted with actresses, harpists, and theatrical people, drinking with them on couches all day long. For these were the men who had most influence with him now: Roscius the comedian, Sorex the archmime, and Metrobius the impersonator of women, for whom, though past his prime, he continued up to the last to be passionately fond, and made no denial of it."

Though Sulla took other partners during his career, by Plutarch's account he remained in love with Metrobius until the end of his life.