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If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. The Roman governing class had consequently come to be hated and discredited at home and abroad. He was elected pontifex maximus in 63 bce by a political dodge. However, the question of replacing Caesar was actually raised in the Senate a number of times from 51 bce onward; each time Caesar had the dangerous proposals vetoed by tribunes of the plebs who were his agents—particularly Gaius Scribonius Curio in 50 bce and Mark Antony in 49 bce. His wife Cornelia also died that year. In the Aeneid , Vergil draws on the Greek tradition of pederasty in a military setting by portraying the love between Nisus and Euryalus , [26] whose military valor marks them as solidly Roman men viri. The orchestra, led by Music Director Carl St.

According to Suetonius, a physician later established that only one wound, the second one to his chest, had been lethal. Abbott, Frank Frost Pompey and Crassus had been at odds for a decade, so Caesar tried to reconcile them.