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Roman gens Calpurnia. The best-known of those who See also:bore it was See also:Marcus See also:Calpurnius Bibulus, See also:consul with See also:Julius See also:Caesar, 59 B.C. He was the See also:candidate put forward by the aristocratical party in opposition to L. See also:Lucceius, who was of the party of Caesar; and See also:bribery was freely used, with the approval of even the rigid See also:Cato (Suetonius, Caesar, 9), to secure his See also:election. But he proved no match for his able colleague. He made an See also:attempt to oppose the agrarian See also:law introduced by Caesar for distributing the lands of See also:Campania, but was overpowered and even personally See also:ill-treated by the See also:mob. After making vain complaints in the See also:senate, he shut himself up in his own See also:house during the remaining eight months of his consulship, taking no See also:part in public business beyond fulminating edicts against Caesar's proceedings, which only provoked an attack upon his house by a mob of Caesar's partisans. His conduct gave rise to the jest, that Julius and Caesar were consuls during that See also:year. When the relations of Caesar and See also:Pompey became strained, Bibulus supported Pompey (See also:Plutarch, Cato See also:Minor, 41) and joined in proposing his election as See also:sole consul (52 B.C.). Next year he went to See also:Syria as proconsul and claimed See also:credit for a victory gained by one of his See also:officers over the Parthians, before his own arrival in the See also:province. After the expiration of his See also:term of See also:office, Pompey gave him command of his See also:fleet in the Ionian See also:Sea. He proved himself utterly incapable; his See also:chief exploit was the burning of See also:thirty transports on their return from See also:Epirus whither they had succeeded in conveying Caesar and some troops from Brundusium.

He died soon afterwards (48) of fatigue and See also:

mortification (Caesar, See also:Bell. Civ..iii. 5-18; Dio See also:Cassius xli. 48). Although not a See also:man of See also:great importance, Bibulus showed great persistency as the enemy of Caesar. See also:Cicero says of him that he was no orator, but a careful writer. By his wife Porcia, daughter of Cato, afterwards married to See also:Brutus, he had three sons. The two eldest were murdered in See also:Egypt by some of the soldiery of See also:Gabinius; the youngest, See also:Lucius Calpurnius Bibulus, fought on the See also:side of the See also:republic at the See also:battle of See also:Philippi, but surrendered to Antony soon after-wards, and was by him appointed to the command of his fleet. He died (about 32) while See also:governor of Syria under See also:Augustus. He wrote a See also:short memoir of his step-See also:father Brutus, which was used by Plutarch (See also:Appian, B.C. iv. 136; Plutarch, Brutus, 13. 23).

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