Battle of the Colline Gate

Battle of the Colline Gate
Part of Sulla's civil war

Porta Collina
Date1 November 82 BC
Location
Result Sullan victory
Belligerents
Sullans
Commanders and leaders
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Pontius Telesinus
Marcus Lamponius
Casualties and losses
c. 50,000 dead[1]

The Battle of the Colline Gate, fought on 1 November 82 BC, was the decisive battle of the civil war between Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the Marians, Samnites and Lucanians. Sulla won the battle at the northeastern end of Rome, near the Colline Gate, and secured control of Italy. Appian is the only source who provides details about the battle.

The next day Sulla ordered the slaughter of the Marian leaders and Samnite prisoners in the Villa Publica. On 3 November, he started the proscription of his enemies.

  1. ^ Lynda Telford, Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered, pp 179–181; Philip Matyszak, Cataclysm 90 BC, pp 144–147; Tom Holland, Rubicon, p. 92; John Leach, Pompey the Great, p. 27; Philip Matyszak, Sertorius, p. 55; Plutarch, Life of Sulla, 29; Velleius Paterculus, History, 2.27.