Of the CIII. booke.
CAtiline together with his armie, was by C. Antonius the Proconsull defeited and slaine. P. Clodius was accused, for entring (in the habit and apparel of a woman) that * 1.1 chappell which it was not law∣full for a man to go into, and notwithstanding he had committed adulterie with the archpontifies wife, yet he was acquit and went cleer away. Cn. Pompeius the Pretor, vanquished at Solone the Allobroges, who had rebelled. P. Clodius left the nobilitie, and raunged himselfe with the Com. C. Caesar subdued the Portugals. At what time as he was in election to be Cos. and went about to invade and make havocke of the C.W. there arose a conspiracie among three of the most principal personages of the citie, Cn. Pompeius M. Crassus and C. Caesar. The Agrarian lawes were by Caesar the Cos. published with great strife & con∣tention: the Senat was unwilling therunto; but by the other Consull M. Bibulus they passed. C. Antonius Proconsull in Thracia sped but badly in his war affairs. M. Cicero was banished the citie by vertue of an act promulged by P. Clodius Trib. of the Com. for that he had put to death certain Romane citizens un∣condemned. Caesar made a voiage into the province of Gaule, where hee subdued the Helvetians, a va∣garant and wandering nation in those daies, who seeking a place to inhabit, intended through the pro∣vince of Caesar, to travell into * 1.2 Narbo. Moreover, it containeth the situation of France. Pompeius tri∣umphed over the children of Mithridates, also over Tigranes and his sonne, and by one voice and gene∣rall consent of the whole assembly, was saluted by the name of * 1.3 Magnus.