XV.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT POMPEY
Pompey the principal citizen--Crassus feeds the people at ten thousand
tables--How the pirates caught C?sar, and how C?sar caught the pirates
--Gabinius makes a move--The Manilian law sets Pompey further on--
Mithridates fights and flees--Times of treasons, stratagems, and
spoils--Catiline plots--The sacrilege of Clodius--C?sar pushes himself
to the front--The last agrarian law--C?sar's success in Gaul--
Vercingetorix appears--C?sar's conquests.
XVI.
HOW THE TRIUMVIRS CAME TO UNTIMELY ENDS
Pompey builds a theatre--Crassus must make his mark--Cato against
C?sar--Curio helps C?sar--Solemn jugglery of the pontiffs--Curio warm
enough--At the Rubicon--Crossing the little river--Pompey stamps in
vain--Cato flees from Rome--Metellus stands aside--Pompey killed--
_Veni, vidi, vici_--Honors and plans of C?sar--The calendar
reformed--C?sar has too much ambition--'T was one of those coronets--
The Ides of March--Antony, the actor--Antony the chief man in Rome--
What next?.
XVII.
HOW THE REPUBLIC BECAME AN EMPIRE
How Octavius became a C?sar--Agrippa and Cicero give him their help--
Octavius wins the soldiers, and Cicero launches his Philippics--Antony,
Lepidus, and Octavius become Triumvirs--Their first work a bloody one--
Cicero falls--Brutus and Cassius defeated at Philippi--Antony forgets
Fulvia--Antony and Octavius quarrel and meet for discussion at
Tarentum--How Horace travelled to Brundusium--The duration of the
Triumvirate extended five years--Cleopatra beguiles Antony a second
time--The great battle off Actium--Octavius wins complete power, and a
new era begins--The Republic ends.
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