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But, if we may judge from the resolution which he subsequently displayed in combating revolution at Rome, he was known to be a supporter of the authority of the senate, and his aristocratic proclivities may have led to his association with his more distinguished colleague Caepio.
That statesman had sought to win the people over to the side of the senate by a series of beneficent laws, which should be as attractive as those of the demagogue and perhaps of more permanent utility than the blessings showered on them by the irresponsible favourite of the moment; but he had done nothing for the mercantile class; and his greater son was left to combine the scheme of conciliation transmitted to him by his father with that enunciated by Caepio.
But, as the Cimbri continued to employ themselves elsewhere, and the Helvetii did not further molest for the moment the Roman province, the new Roman commander-in-chief, Quintus Servilius Caepio, had full time to recover possession of the town of Tolosa by treachery and to empty at leisure the immense treasures accumulated in the old and famous sanctuary of the Celtic Apollo.
Because Gaius Norbanus had eight years previously in concert with Saturninus driven the consular Quintus Caepio into exile he was now on the ground of his own law accused of high treason, and the jurymen hesitated long not whether the accused was guilty or innocent, but whether his ally Saturninus or his enemy Caepio was to be regarded as the most deserving of their hate till at last they decided for acquittal.
The elder Quintus Caepio was consul in 648, the younger quaestor in 651 or 654, the former consequently was born about or before 605, the latter about 624 or 627. IV. IV. Treaty between Rome and Numidia IV. V. Warfare of Prosecutions IV. IV. Rival Demagogism of the Senate. The Livian Laws IV. V. And Reach the Danube IV. IV. Administration under the Restoration
The prudence of Marius and a victory over the Peligni gained by Sulpicius were neutralised by the new general's rashness. Caepio and many of his men were slain, and at last Marius was sole commander. He advanced steadily but warily into the Marsian country. Marius had shrunk from following the enemy into a vineyard. Sulla, on the other side of it, cut them off.
Caepio, smiling, assented, but Cato made no answer, only he looked steadfastly and fiercely on the strangers. Then said Pompaedius, "And you, young sir, what say you to us? will not you, as well as your brother, intercede with your uncle in our behalf?"
Lastly the urban quaestor, Quintus Caepio, the son, it may be presumed, of the general condemned three years before, and like his father a vehement antagonist of the popular party, with a band of devoted partisans dispersed the comitia by violence.
It was against Quintus Caepio that their attacks were first directed; and justly, in so far as he had primarily occasioned the defeat of Arausio by his insubordination, even apart from the probably well-founded but not proved charge of embezzling the Tolosan booty; but the fury which the opposition displayed against him was essentially augmented by the fact, that he had as consul ventured on an attempt to wrest the posts of jurymen from the capitalists.
So Caepio invaded Lusitania, and traversed the land as far as the territories of the Vettones and Callaeci; Viriathus declined a conflict with the superior force, and by dexterous movements evaded his antagonist . But when in the ensuing year Caepio renewed the attack, and in addition the army, which had in The meantime become available in the northern province, made its appearance under Marcus Popillius in Lusitania, Viriathus sued for peace on any terms.
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