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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nsulship, and he knew that withthe united support of rompeiiis and Crassushe could easily obtain the prize. In the faceof such a combinatiou the opposition of theSenate would be little less than ridiculous. Inthe furtherance of this object he was com-pletely successful. Crassus and Pompeius werereconciled, and Ijetween them and Cresar, un-der the guiding hand of the latter, was formedthat great coalition known as the First Teium-viR.\TE. The popularity of Pompeius and themoney of Crassus were both subordinated tothe end of Csesars consulship. He was electedin B. C. 59, with Marcus Bibulus, an Opti-mate blockhead, for a colleague. This was just to Ca-sars liking. Bibnlus ^■-^ UXIVEIiSAL HI^TOUY.-THE ANCIEXT WORLD. was the clphc- which nia.lc him ten. With trant Senate, and a liill was adopted distrib-lonipeiu.s he kept his ple.lge. The acts of the utiug a liberal quantity of juiblie lands to thelatter m the Last were ratified by the rccalci- . veterans who had overthrown Mithiidates.
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0\ITI~ IKL-ENTINO THE roBI ET TO ELM ROME. —TilK IMPERIAL REPUBLIC. !29 The tax-system now prevalent in the pidviiiecof Asia was revolutionized. A eoumii^sinn dftwenty members was appointed, uiidir thrpresidency of Pompeius and Crassiis. u> >uprr-intend the distribution of lands, and thi ii;iirs-trian order was gratified with several ronr. s-sions. The administration was prrriiiiiiriiilyone of conciliation, but was not larkin- in anyelement of strength or vi.^or. At the end of his consular term C;osar wasassigned to the government of the Two Gaulsand Illyricum. His commission extended overfive years, and he was given eight legions ofsohliers. The Transalpine Gaul presented a so rich, liut far UKJi-e adxciitnrous than thatwhich had been spread Ijefore loiiij)(ius inthe East. It opened to the aspiring genius ofCaesar precisely the vista through wliicii thegoal could be seen afar. To rompciiis wasassigned the government of Italy and that ofthe East to Crassus. Before departing fo

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