CHAPTER XIX.
FROM THE PERPETUAL DICTATORSHIP OF SYLLA TO THE TRIUMVIRATE OF CAESAR, POMPEY, AND CRASSUS .-- U.C.

680.
With Tully she her wide reviving light To senates holds, a Catiline confounds.
And saves awhile from Caesar sinking Rome .-- _Thomson_.
1.

Upon the death of Sylla, the jealousies of Pompey and Crassus, the two most powerful men in the empire, began to excite fresh dissensions.

Pompey was the most beloved general, but Crassus the richest man in Rome.
2.

The first opportunity that was offered of discovering their mutual jealousy, was upon disbanding their troops.