Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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Sulla found Pompey’s qualities

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‘so impressive’
-pompey divorces wife Anstia and marry Sula’s daughter Aemelia ‘heartless act’, Anista father was murdered supposedly as a result of ‘Pompey being on Sulla’s side’

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67BC Lex Gabinia

Pompey’s imperium against pirates

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‘full-blown autocracy’

‘unrestricted and unlimited power’

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‘He spared

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all their lives’ Pompey and pirates who approached him

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‘notion arose among them that the mere

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name of Pompey had bought an end to the war’

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66BC Lex Manilia

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‘Pompey’s power seemed to form the basis for tyranny’

‘innate ambition and love of power’

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Cato said in Life of Pompey ‘their alliance, that was

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the first and greatest evil for the city’

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Pompey ‘had allowed himself to become nothing

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more than a puppet in Caesars hands’ -marriage to Julia

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Life of P ‘Caesar therefore decided to forfeit the triumph

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and go for the consulship’

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59BC LoP ‘Bibulus’ reaction was to shut

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himself up in his house for 8 months’

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LoP ‘Cato was constantly

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delivering speeches in the Senate which were full of warning’

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Pompey sent ‘armed men’ to kill Demotius- ‘this was the

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terrible route Pompey and Crassus took to consulship’ in 70BC

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LoP ‘end of the marriage alliance… the city

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was gripped by turmoil’

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LoP ‘two of them were not satisfied

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with the Roman empire’

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of the idea to make P dictator ‘ Cato was severely

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critical of the idea’

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supported P to become ‘sole consul’ ‘for the

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sake of Rome, not for Pompey’

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‘Catalus told Cicero off for sparring

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Caesar when he was vulnerable during the Catiline affair’

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LoC ‘There was nothing Cato feared more than a

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revolution instigated by the poorer members of society’

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‘I insist my wife should be

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above suspicion’

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‘Caesar was escorted to the consulship

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protected and surrounded by the friendship of Crassus and Pompey’

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LoC ‘Pompey, as soon as he was married,

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filled the forum with armed men and helped the people get Caesar’s laws passed’

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53BC Julia’s death LoC ‘the bond that had protected… and

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preserved a state of peace and concord had come to an end’

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LoC ‘the depth of Pompey’s grief

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was matched by Caesars’

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56BC Caesar was ‘sending back to Rome

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all the surplus gold’ LoP

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LoC Cato ‘persuaded the Senate to make Pompey sole consul… more legitimate

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form of autocracy might divert him from storming his way into a dictatorship’

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‘Caesar demands looked

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fair and reasonable’

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LoC (Lupercalia festival) ‘Caesar rejected the diadem (from MA), the assembled

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people all burst out into applause’

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LoMA ‘The most influential man in Rome

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at the time was Cicero’

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Cicero kept ‘arousing public opinion against Antony, until eventually he persuaded the Senate to

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declare him as enemy of the State’

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LoMA ‘Caesar (Augustus) had broken off his alliance with Cicero because

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he could see he was a partisan of freedom’

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Pirates ‘pretended to be stricken by

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panic and terror’ at the word ‘Roman’

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Cato described as:

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inflexible… all together steadfast

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‘unprecedented level of fear ‘he treated people fairly and restored

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calm to the city’ Caesar

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‘view seemed so

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humane’ caesar on Catteline

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Pompeys marriage to Cornelia was

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‘ignoring the plight of the city’