User talk:Behan11

Dear Behan11

I am experimenting here, not having tried to edit Wikipedia before, so seeing that you are the last to update the article on Chrysogonus I thought I'd see if contacting you worked. I suspect the details listed for him owe more to Saylor's book than to Roman history, unless new sources have emerged recently. The Oxford Classical Dictionary mentions only that he was Sulla's freedman and conspired with two relatives of the murdered Sextus Roscius to place the man's name on proscription lists, enabling him to buy the man's properties at a nominal sum; he then accused the man's son (also Sextus Roscius) of parricide; these matters are attested by Cicero's successful defence speech Pro Roscio; perhaps Sulla did then withdraw support after this embarrassing exposure. Smith's biographical dictionary of antiquities (available at ancientlibrary.com) says much the same, citing also Plutarch's Life of Cicero (chap 3) and Pliny. But the death from the Tarpeian rock, and the date, seem misleading inventions. All the best - Euenios.