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Battle of the Colline Gate
Part of Sulla's second civil war
Date November 82 BC Location Rome, Italy Result Optimate victory
Combatants
Optimates	Populares, Samnites
Commanders
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marcus Licinius Crassus	Pontius

The battle of the Colline Gate, fought in November of 82 BC, was the final battle of the civil war between the Populares (originally led by Marius) and the Optimates led by Sulla. Sulla having already marched into the city, a group of Samnites and Romans led by Pontius attacked at the Colline gate on the northeastern wall, and fought all night before being routed. In this battle Marcus Licinius Crassus won considerable note by containing the enemy in his sector and ultimately won Sulla the battle. The battle was swiftly followed by the extermination of the Samnite prisoners within earshot of the senate house before Sulla addressed the senate (this was the last serious action ever fought by Samnite forces). The Samnites were slaughtered in the Villa Publica, that housed the five year census. Their bodies were tossed into the Tiber River.