[3] "Extrema fames."--_De Bell. Gall_., vii. 17.
[4] "Summa se iniquitatis condemnari debere nisi eorum vitam sua salute
habeat cariorem."
[5] _De Bell. Gall_., vii. 33.
[6] "Tantis subito difficultatibus objectis ab animi virtute consilium
petebat."
[7] Gudrund? The word has a German sound.
[8] "Insolenter adversarii sui gloriabantur L. Lentulum et C. Marcellum
consules creatos, qui omnem honorem et dignitatem Caesaris
exspoliarent. Ereptum Servio Galbae consulatum cum is multo plus
gratia, suffragiisque valuisset, quod sibi conjunctus et
familiaritate et necessitudine legationis esset."--_Auli Hirtii
De Bell. Gall_. viii. 50.
CHAPTER XX.
[Sidenote: B.C. 51.]
Crassus had been destroyed by the Parthians. The nomination of his
successor lay with the Senate, and the Senate gave a notable evidence of
their incapacity for selecting competent governors for the provinces by
appointing in his place Caesar's old colleague, Bibulus. In their whole
number there was no such fool as Bibulus. When he arrived in Syria he shut
himself into a fortified town, leaving the Parthians to plunder and burn
at their pleasure. Cicero mocked at him. The Senate thanked him for his
distinguished services. The few serious men in Rome thought that Caesar or
Pompey should be sent out;[1] or, if they could not be spared, at least
one of the consuls of the year--Sulpicius Rufus or Marcus Marcellus.
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