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Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (c. 102 – 48 BC) was a politician of the Roman Republic. He was a conservative and upholder of the established social order who served in several magisterial positions alongside Julius Caesar and conceived a lifelong enmity towards him.
Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus was a Roman politician who, as consul with Julius Caesar in 59 bc, worked with the senatorial conservatives against Caesar’s agrarian legislation. He was married to Porcia, a daughter of Cato the Younger. When Bibulus was prevented by mob violence from opposing Caesar’s.
Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus. in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World Length: 180 words. Caesar's colleague in the curule aedileship and the praetorship and finally, after a bribery fund had been set up for him by the nobiles, in the consulship of 59 bc.
Apr 27, 2022 · Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (c. 102 BC – 48 BC) was a politician of the late Roman Republic. An opponent of Julius Caesar, he was consul alongside Caesar in 59 BC, and fought against him in the civil war that broke out between Caesar and Pompey in 49 BC....
Bibulus at once arouses suspicion. Absent since the summer of 51, Bibulus did not return to Italy until March of 49. That is not all. The author was oblivious to Ap. Claudius Pulcher, the linchpin in the coali-tion contrived against Caesar: one daughter married to Marcus Brutus (Cato's nephew), the other to the elder son of Magnus. Enough, even if
Calpurnius (RE 28) Bibulus, Marcus, *Caesar's colleague in the curule *aedileship and the *praetorship and finally, after a bribery fund had been set up for him by the nobiles, in the consulship of 59 bce, for which he defeated L. *Lucceius.
Serving alongside of Caesar in every magistracy that the two men held until 59, Bibulus had the misfortune of being Caesar's consular colleague. While Bibulu...
