47At this time Caesar had returned from his province62He returned from Spain in 60 B.C. See the Caesar, chapters xiii. and xiv. and had inaugurated a policy which brought him the greatest favour for the present and power for the future, but proved most injurious to Pompey and the city. He was a candidate for his first consulship, and seeing that, while Crassus and Pompey were at variance, if he attached himself to the one he would make an enemy of the other, he sought to reconcile them with one another,—a thing which was honourable in itself and conducive to the public good, but he undertook it for an unworthy reason and with all the cleverness of an intriguer.
Notes
[62] He returned from Spain in 60 B.C. See the Caesar, chapters xiii. and xiv.