CLA2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gallia Narbonensis, Lex Julia, Acta Diurna
2 Feb 2018
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61 bc caesar restores alliance with crassus because of problems with debt and creditors, in order to go out to his province (spain) as pro praetorian governor. The following year (60 bc), cato the younger again refused pompey"s requests as well as a request of crassus for rebates for publicani on the taxes they had paid for the privilege to farm taxes. Cato the younger also increased the severity of punishment for equestrian jurors who perjured themselves on behalf of crony equestrian publicani. Crassus was a rich equestrian money-lender to whom many equestrians owed money: tax breaks meant money in his pocket. 60 bc cato the younger turned against caesar, who had returned from governing spain (61 bc); he had waged successful campaigns and wanted a military triumph and a consulship (for 59 bc) To block caesar, cato invoked old law on books which made this request impossible.
