C. 56; and here was formed the coalition which
is sometimes, though improperly, called the first Triumvirate.]
[Footnote 49: The second consulship of Pompeius and Crassus was B.C.
55. Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was one of the consuls of the
year B.C. 56, during which the elections for the year 55 took place.
This Domitius, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, was consul B.C. 54. In the
quarrel between Pompeius and Caesar, he joined Pompeius, and after
various adventures finally he lost his life in the battle of Pharsalus
B.C. 48.]
[Footnote 50: The first 'house' ([Greek: oikia]) is evidently the
house of Domitius. The second house ([Greek: oikema]), which may be
more properly rendered 'chamber,' may, as Sintenis says, mean the
Senate-house, if the reading is right. Kaltwasser takes the second
house to be the same as the first house; and he refers to the Life of
Pompeius, c. 51, 52, where the same story is told.
In place of [Greek: oikema] some critics have read [Greek: bema] the
Rostra.]
[Footnote 51: Appian (_Civil Wars_, ii. 18) says that Pompeius
received Iberia and Libya. The Romans had now two provinces in the
Spanish peninsula, Hispania Citerior or Tarraconensis, and Ulterior or
Baetica. This arrangement, by which the whole power of the state was
distributed among Pompeius, Crassus and Caesar, was in effect a
revolution, and the immediate cause of the wars which followed.
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