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Updated: May 21, 2025
Pompeius stood towards his former adjutant precisely as after the Gabinio-Manilian laws the latter had stood towards him. Caesar was now the hero of the day and the master of the most powerful Roman army; Pompeius was an ex-general who had once been famous.
Of course the matter could not so remain; it was determined among the confederates, that Caesar should obtain by decree of the people an extraordinary command formed on the model of the Gabinio-Manilian laws.
It was natural to compare the position which Pompeius had obtained by the Gabinio-Manilian law with that which Caesar had obtained by the Vatinian; but the comparison did not turn out to Caesar's advantage. Pompeius ruled over nearly the whole Roman empire; Caesar over two provinces.
Of course the matter could not so remain; it was determined among the confederates, that Caesar should obtain by decree of the people an extraordinary command formed on the model of the Gabinio-Manilian laws.
Never since Rome stood had such power been united in the hands of a single man. The Democratic-Military Revolution The Gabinio-Manilian proposals terminated the struggle between the senate and the popular party, which the Sempronian laws had begun sixty-seven years before.
All these pieces of evidence speak clearly enough; but, even were it not so, the desperate position of the democracy in presence of the military power which since the Gabinio-Manilian laws assumed by its side an attitude more threatening than ever renders it almost a certainty that, as usually happens in such cases, it sought a last resource in secret plots and in alliance with anarchy.
Pompeius stood towards his former adjutant precisely as after the Gabinio-Manilian laws the latter had stood towards him. Caesar was now the hero of the day and the master of the most powerful Roman army; Pompeius was an ex-general who had once been famous.
Never since Rome stood had such power been united in the hands of a single man. The Democratic-Military Revolution The Gabinio-Manilian proposals terminated the struggle between the senate and the popular party, which the Sempronian laws had begun sixty-seven years before.
It was natural to compare the position which Pompeius had obtained by the Gabinio-Manilian law with that which Caesar had obtained by the Vatinian; but the comparison did not turn out to Caesar's advantage. Pompeius ruled over nearly the whole Roman empire; Caesar over two provinces.
All these pieces of evidence speak clearly enough; but, even were it not so, the desperate position of the democracy in presence of the military power which since the Gabinio-Manilian laws assumed by its side an attitude more threatening than ever renders it almost a certainty that, as usually happens in such cases, it sought a last resource in secret plots and in alliance with anarchy.
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