Of course, he had many rivals and opponents among the patrician ranks, and in the Senate, and they often impeded and thwarted his plans and measures for a time, though he always triumphed in the end.
[Sidenote: He is made quaestor.] [Sidenote: Caesar leaves Spain.] [Sidenote: His project.] One of the first offices of importance to which he attained was that of _quaestor_, as it was called, which office called him away from Rome into the province of Spain, making him the second in command there.

The officer first in command in the province was, in this instance, a praetor.

During his absence in Spain, Caesar replenished in some degree his exhausted finances, but he soon became very much discontented with so subordinate a position.

His discontent was greatly increased by his coming unexpectedly, one day, at a city then called Hades--the present Cadiz--upon a statue of Alexander, which adorned one of the public edifices there.

Alexander died when he was only about thirty years of age, having before that period made himself master of the world.