Julius Caesar (cos. 59) edit

Julius Caesar

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Career

1. 69 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   Served in Farther Spain under Antistius Vetus (a). It is generally assumed that Caesar held the quaestorship in 68 (b), but he was eligible for the office in 69. The legions levied for service in Cilicia which still remained in Cisalpine Gaul at the time of his return from Spain (c) almost certainly belonged to the forces of Marcius Rex, Cos. 68. Moreover, though he went to the province by spring or summer of his year he was able to return, ante tempus (Suet.), i.e., before his commander, in time to support the Gabinian law in early 67. He probably entered office Dec. 5, 70, went to his province in spring 69, and returned in the course of 68. The eulogies of his aunt and his wife would then precede his departure for Spain. See L. R. Taylor, CPh 36 (1941) 122f.

2. 65 BCE
   Aedile 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)

3. 62 BCE
   Praetor edit

   While Praetor-elect he helped to reveal the conspiracy of Catiline, but when the conspirators were arrested tried to save their lives (a). As Praetor he attempted to rob Catulus of the credit for restoring the temple of Jupiter in the Capitol and give it to Pompey, and supported the bill of the Tribune Metellus Nepos to recall Pompey and place him in command against Catiline, but after passage of the Senatus Consultum Ultimum and his own suspension from office he made peace with his opponents (b). Clodius obtained sacrilegious entrance to the rites of the Bona Dea, which were celebrated at Caesar's house, and Caesar divorced his wife (c). He defended the Numidian prince Masintha against Hiempsal (d).

4. 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).

5. 48 BCE
   Consul edit

   In this year Caesar brought an army across the Adriatic, and after winter engagements, such as his attempt to besiege Pompey at Dyrrachium, won a decisive victory over Pompey at Pharsalus, then pursued him to Egypt, and toward the end of the year became embroiled in the dispute between Cleopatra and her brother for the Egyptian throne (a). Servilius meantime in Italy (b) suppressed the illegal activities of Caelius Rufus (c; see below, Praetors), and after receiving news of Caesar's victory at Pharsalus, named him Dictator for a second time (d; see below, Dictator).

6. 44 BCE
   Consul edit

   See MRR2 source

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