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).