Julius Caesar - Coalition with Pompey and Crassus

The first real prize which Caesar claimed was the consulship. To secure this, he went without the triumph which he had earned in Spain.

His colleague was M. Bibulus, who belonged to the straitest sect of the senatorial oligarchy and, together in a Coalition with Pompey and Crassus, his party placed every form of constitutional obstruction in the path of Caesar's legislation. Caesar, however, overrode all opposition, mustering Pompey's veterans to drive his colleague from the forum.

As a result, Bibulus became a virtual prisoner in his own house, and Caesar placed himself outside the pale of the free republic. Thus the plans of the coalition were carried through.

Pompey was satisfied by the ratification of his acts in Asia, and by the assignment of the Campanian state domains to his veterans, the capitalists (with whose interests Crassus was identified) had their bargain for the farming of the Asiatic revenues cancelled, Ptolemy Auletes received the confirmation of his title to the throne of Egypt (for a "bribe" amounting to £1,500,000), and a fresh act was passed for preventing extortion by provincial governors.

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