. European history : an outline of its development. ual cultivation for theviolent measures by whichthe highest power must begained in Rome, and he canhardly be called a rival ofCsesar and Pompey. 90. The First Triumvirate. — When Pompey returnedfrom the East in 61, heformed a combination withCaesar and Crassus, — a man who had made himself very rich by the purchase of con-fiscated estates and was now ambitious of political honors, — to control the State and secure for each of them whathe wanted. Caesar was given the province of Gaul for fiveyears and an army, which was what he especially wish
. European history : an outline of its development. ual cultivation for theviolent measures by whichthe highest power must begained in Rome, and he canhardly be called a rival ofCsesar and Pompey. 90. The First Triumvirate. — When Pompey returnedfrom the East in 61, heformed a combination withCaesar and Crassus, — a man who had made himself very rich by the purchase of con-fiscated estates and was now ambitious of political honors, — to control the State and secure for each of them whathe wanted. Caesar was given the province of Gaul for fiveyears and an army, which was what he especially command was later extended, and Pompey receivedSpain and Crassus Syria, where he was killed in war withthe Parthians. In these years Caesar made his famous con-quest of Gaul, and invaded Germany and even to his own purpose was it that he learned the art ofwar and trained an army devotedly attached to himself. 91. A New Civil War. —As the second five years of theTriumvirate drew to a close, it became evident that one of. C-ESAl T. A. Dodge, CcBsar (Houghton, MilitaryHistory) ;Plutarch,Life ofCcesar. , Ro-ma}! Life hithe Days ofCicero, The ,The RomanTriumvirates(Epochs) ;Mommsen,IV. 504-508. 96 TJie Beginning of the Ccesars [§92 The crossingof the Rubi-con. Momm-sen, V. 190-192. The battle ofPharsalia,48 Monarchythe only alter-native to civilwar andanarchy. the two, Caesar or Pompey, must go down before the had the city and was supported by the had his army, but by law he could not use it outsidehis province. Caesar endeavored to secure a continuanceof his office until he could be elected consul, and so be ableto meet Pompey on more even terms in Rome. ThisPompey succeeded in preventing, and the tribunes who hadtaken Caesars part were driven from the city. Caesar nowjudged that the time for which he had been preparing hadcome, and he crossed the Rubicon, the boundary line o
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