lf.

Gnaeus Pompey shortly after lost his life, but Sextus lived for a number
of years.

Caesar tarried in Spain, regulating affairs, until late in the autumn,
when he returned to Rome and enjoyed another triumph over the Iberians
(Spaniards). The triumph was followed, as usual, by games and festivals,
which kept the populace in a fever of delight and admiration.

CATO.-METELLUS SCIPIO.

MARCUS PORTIUS CATO UTICENSIS (Footnote: Cato the Younger, called
UTICENSIS on account of his death at Utica.) (95-46) was the
great-grandson of Cato the Censor. He was the last of the Romans of the
old school. Like his more famous ancestor, he was frugal and austere in
his habits, upright, unselfish, and incorruptible. But he was a fanatic,
who could not be persuaded to relinquish his views on any subject. As a
general, he was a failure, having neither taste nor genius for military
exploits. He held various offices at Rome, as Quaestor and Praetor; but
when candidate for the consulship he was defeated, because he declined
to win votes by bribery and other questionable methods then in vogue.

QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS belonged to the illustrious family of
the Scipios by birth, and to that of the Metelli by adoption. He was one
of the most unjust and dishonest of the Senators that opposed Caesar.
He was the father-in-law of Pompey, by whom he was made a pliant tool
against the great conqueror.

CHAPTER XXXIV. MURDER OF CAESAR.

Upon his return from Spain, Caesar granted pardon to all who had fought
against him, the most prominent of whom were GAIUS CASSIUS, MARCUS
BRUTUS, and CICERO. He increased the number of the Senate to nine
hundred. He cut off the corn grants, which nursed the city mob in
idleness. He sent out impoverished men to colonize old cities. He
rebuilt Corinth, and settled eighty thousand Italians on the site of
Carthage. As a censor of morals he was very rigid. His own habits were
marked by frugality. The rich young patricians were forbidden to be
carried about in litters, as had been the custom. Libraries were formed.
Eminent physicians and scientists were encouraged to settle in Rome. The
harbor of Ostia was improved, and a road constructed from the Adriatic
to the Tyrrhenian Sea, over the Apennines. A temple to Mars was built,
and an immense amphitheatre was erected at the foot of the Tarpeian
Rock.

In the midst of this useful activity he was basely murdered.

CASSIUS LONGINUS and MARCUS JUNI