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Book CV.

When, by the intercessions of Caius Cato, the elections were suspended, the senate went into mourning. [Y.R. 607. B.C. 55.] Marcus Cato, a candidate for the praetorship, lost the election, Vatinius carrying it against him. The same Cato was committed to prison by the tribune Trebonius, for resisting the law allotting the provinces, for five years, in the following manner: to Caesar, Gaul and Germany; to Pompeius, Spain; and to Crassus, Syria, and the Parthian war. Aulus Gabinius, the proconsul, restored Ptolemy to his kingdom of Egypt, and dethroned Archelaus, whom the people had elected king. [Y.R. 698. B.C. 54.] Caesar, having vanquished the Germans who had invaded Gaul, passed the Rhine, and subdued the nearest part of it: and then crossed over the sea into Britain, with adverse fortune, at first owing to opposing tem- [p. 2203] pests, and afterwards with little better success; and, having killed a very great number of the inhabitants, he reduced a part of the island to subjection.

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