]
[Footnote 470: A similar story is told by Suetonius (_Caesar_, 7) and
Dion Cassius (37. c. 52), but they assign it to the time of Caesar's
quaestorship in Spain.]
[Footnote 471: The Calaici, or Callaici, or Gallaeci, occupied that
part of the Spanish peninsula which extended from the Douro north and
north-west to the Atlantic. (Strabo, p. 152.) The name still exists in
the modern term Gallica. D. Junius Brutus, consul B.C. 138, and the
grandfather of one of Caesar's murderers, triumphed over the Callaici
and Lusitani, and obtained the name Callaicus. The transactions of
Caesar in Lusitania are recorded by Dion Cassius (37. c. 52).]
[Footnote 472: Many of the creditors were probably Romans. (Velleius
Pat. ii 43, and the Life of Lucullus, c. 7.)]
[Footnote 473: Caesar was consul B.C. 59.]
[Footnote 474: The measure was for the distribution of Public land
(Dion Cassius, 38. c. 1, &c. &c.) and it was an Agrarian Law. The law
comprehended also the land about Capua (Campanus ager). Twenty
thousand Roman citizens were settled on the allotted lands (Vell.
Pater, ii. 44; Appianus, _Civil Wars_, ii. 10). Cicero, who was
writing to Atticus at the time, mentions this division of the lands as
an impolitic measure. It left the Romans without any source of public
income in Italy except the Vicesimae (_Ad Attic._ ii. 16, 18).
The Romans, who were fond of jokes and pasquinades against those who
were in power, used to call the consulship of Caesar, the consulship of
Caius Caesar and Julius Caesar, in allusion to the inactivity of
Bibulus, who could not resist his bolder colleague's measures.
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