Caesar and Pompey's Relationship

Question 1

What did the first triumvirate secure for Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus? [Plut]

Answer 1

Gaul for Caesar, Eastern settlements for Pompey, and tax rebate for Crassus

This arrangement gave each of them more power.

Question 2

Who cried out against the alliances made for power between Caesar and Pompey?

Answer 2

Cato “cried out that it was intolerable to have supreme power prostituted by marriages of alliances”

Question 3

What threat did Pompey make when Caesar was ratifying his land bill? [Plut]

Answer 3

“To come up against swords with sword and shield”

Question 4

What does Plutarch state about the cause of the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey?

Answer 4

“It was not… the quarrel between Caesar and Pompey that brought on the civil wars, but rather their friendship”

Question 5

What did Caesar claim about Pompey in ‘The Civil War’?

Answer 5

“They have seduced Pompey”