Sulla obtained the formal conferment on himself of absolute power.
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Your majesty's conferment took place in the presence of Monsieur, his majesty's late uncle, of the princes, and of the ladies attached to the court.
"Louise de la Valliere"
Alexandre Dumas, Pere
The conferment of such authority would be in the line of that sound morality which shrinks from affording secure asylum to the author of a heinous crime.
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