Hello and welcome to this episode of Epox, where I shall again be continuing my story of the

career of Pompey and Caesar in unison, going along parallel.

So if you remember last time, we're left off that narrative, Pompey, Caesar and Crassus

had basically just formed the first triumvirate, and they went out on the steps of the senate house or the forum and declared

it to the people that they were going to basically push through legislation essentially against the

will of the oligarchical senatorial class so i'll pick up the story there and we shall use more

than one source this week but i shall start with clup, basically exactly where we left off for a bit of an attempt at continuity.

So Plutarch says, quote, Caesar went on to gain a still further hold over Pompey's power

and influence.

He had a daughter, Julia, who was engaged to Sevilleus Capio, and he now engaged her to Pompey.

Apparently, they were quite close to getting married.

He just sort of ripped her away from him, and he's got no real say in it, this Sevilleas Capio.

Gives her to Pompey, and Pompey's older than Caesar.

Pompi's like five, six years older than Caesar, so he's way older than Julia.

You might have thought Julia might be a bit annoyed about it. We don't really know for sure, but essentially she didn't seem

to mind. They actually seemed to get on quite well. I guess she liked older men. Well, their

relationship wasn't just a complete prison for her, put it that way.

And he now engaged her to Pompey, saying that he would arrange that Sevilleus could

marry Pompey's daughter, though she too was engaged already, having been promised to Faustus,

the son of Sulla.

And shortly afterwards, Caesar married Colpernia, a daughter of Pizzo, and got Pizzo elected as

Consul for the following year.

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