This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... of Rome to preserve order; and as the senate was of itself unable to prevent anarchy in the city, it made him sole consul in 52 B.C., and prolonged his proconsulship five years. The aristocrats now looked to him for protection from the mighty governor of Gaul, who represented the people. Pompey had married Caesar's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... of Rome to preserve order; and as the senate was of itself unable to prevent anarchy in the city, it made him sole consul in 52 B.C., and prolonged his proconsulship five years. The aristocrats now looked to him for protection from the mighty governor of Gaul, who represented the people. Pompey had married Caesar's daughter Julia; and as csesarand long as she lived the two leaders remained friends. Her ey death, however, broke the only bond which united them. Suetonius, A clash between them, and between the parties they repre-? Casarsented, was inevitable. Though for the sake of harmony Caesar was willing to concede everything short of selfannihilation, the senate was unbending. As his enemies threatened to prosecute him when he should become a private citizen, he wished to pass immediately from the proconsulship of Gaul, ending 49 B.C., to the consulship at Rome, 48 B.C. A law of the tribunes gave him permission to become a candidate for the consulship without appearing in person according to custom. Nevertheless in 49 B.c. the senate ordered him to lay down his command on pain of being declared a public enemy. When the tribunes, Mark Antony and Quintus Cassius, vetoed this decree, they were harshly treated, and fled thereupon to Caesar's camp. In violating the sanctity of the tribunes--the mainstay of the constitution--the nobles were preparing their own ruin, as their act gave Caesar a pretext for bringing his army to Rome to protect the sacred office. It is a noteworthy fact that the tribunate and the proconsulship, thus united against the senate, were to become the two chief bases of the imperial government. The story is told that at the Rubicon, which separated his province from Italy, Caesar hesitated while he discussed with his friends the conse...
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