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Bibulus

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Bibulus (Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus) (bĭb`yləs), d. 48 B.C., Roman statesman. The colleague in the consulship with Julius Caesar Caesar, Julius (Caius Julius Caesar), 100? B.C.–44 B.C., Roman statesman and general. Rise to Power


Although he was born into the Julian gens, one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, Caesar was always a member of the democratic or
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 in 59 B.C., he did everything in his power to block each move made by Caesar. A conservative republican, he was a strong partisan of Pompey. In 51 B.C. he was governor of Syria, and in 48 B.C. he died trying to halt Caesar in the Adriatic. His wife was Portia, daughter of Cato the Younger; she later married Brutus.


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Pardon me, sir; you are giving a very wrong construction to my language, if you suppose I include, without many and particular qualifications, the bibulus Americanus, in the family of the vacca.
 
 
 
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