48.) Plancus was charged with encouraging this
disorder, and he was brought to trial. Cicero was his accuser; he was
condemned and exiled. (Cicero, _Ad Diversos_, vii. 2.)]
[Footnote 335: Plautius Hypsaeus was not a consular. He had been the
quaestor of Pompeius. He and Scipio had been candidates for the
consulship this year, and were both charged with bribery. (Dion
Cassius, 40, c. 53.) Hypsaeus was convicted.]
[Footnote 336: See the Life of Caesar, c. 29. Pompeius had lent Caesar
two legions (c. 52). Compare Dion Cassius, 40. c. 65, and Appianus,
_Civil Wars_, ii. 29. The illness of Pompeius and the return of the
legions from Gaul took place in the year B.C. 50. Appius Claudius (c.
57) was sent by the Senate to conduct the legions from Gaul. Dion
Cassius (40. c. 65) says that Pompeius had lent Caesar only one legion,
but that Caesar had to give up another also, inasmuch as Pompeius
obtained an order of the Senate that both he and Caesar should give a
legion to Bibulus, who was in Syria, for the Parthian war. (Appianus,
_Civil Wars_, ii. 29; _Bell. Gall._ viii. 54.) Thus Pompeius in effect
gave up nothing, but Caesar parted with two legions. The legions were
not sent to Syria, but both wintered in Capua. The consul C. Claudius
Marcellus (B.C. 50) gave both these legions to Pompeius.]
[Footnote 337: L. AEmilius Paulus was consul B.C. 50, with C. Claudius
Marcellus a violent opponent of Caesar.
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