Bibulus

Family: Roman · Role: consul · First appears: Julius Caesar 20

Life events

Julius Caesar drove Bibulus from the forum, after which Bibulus withdrew from public affairs until his term ended.(Julius Caesar 20 · 📍 forum)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “Upon preferring a bill to the people for the division of some public lands, he was opposed by his colleague, whom he violently drove out of the forum. Next day the insulted consul made a complaint in the senate of this treatment; but such was the consternation, that no one having the courage to bring the matter forward or move a censure, which had been often done under outrages of less importance, he was so much dispirited, that until the expiration of his office he never stirred from home, and did nothing but issue edicts to obstruct his colleague’s proceedings.”

rivals with Julius Caesar “Upon preferring a bill to the people for the division of some public lands, he was opposed by his colleague, whom he violently drove out of the forum.”

enemies with Julius Caesar “by whose means chiefly he had but a little before baffled Bibulus”

with Julius Caesar (Colleagues) “I would likewise say nothing of the edicts of Bibulus, in which he proclaimed his colleague under the name of ‘the queen of Bithynia;’”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.