Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus edit

Career

1. 65 BCE
   Aedile ·curule edit

   Bibulus was overshadowed in office by Caesar (a), whose magnificent games won him considerable popularity (b). He [Caesar] restored the trophies of Marius (c), and supported the plan of Crassus to annex Egypt (d)

2. 62 BCE
   Praetor edit

   Crushed Catilinarian sympathizers among the Paeligni (a), and in Rome stood in opposition to his colleague Caesar (b).

3. 59 BCE
   Consul edit

   Bibulus, with the support of three Tribunes of the Plebs (see below, Tribunes of the Plebs), opposed Caesar's agrarian law, but when proved powerless against the combination of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus, retired to his house, and by announcements that he was watching for omens kept Caesar's legislation technically invalid (a). Caesar carried a Lex Iulia Agraria(3) early in the year, Probably in January (b), and in May added another to distribute the Campanian land to needy citizens with families (c). He had the acts of Pompey in the East ratified in a single law (d), and satisfied Crassus by remitting one-third of the contracts to the tax farmers of Asia (e). In return for a huge sum he ratified the position of Ptolemy Auletes as king of Egypt (f). Besides minor measures such as the publication of the Acta of the Senate, with which he began his regime (g), and his revival of the custom of being followed by his lictors in the months when he did not hold the fasces (g), he carried an important Lex de repetundis which regulated the procedures and demands of provincial governors more closely than before (h). He received command of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum by the Vatinian law (see below, Tribunes of the Plebs), and with Pompey's support the Senate decreed him Transalpine Gaul in addition (i).

Family