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Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus
Bibulus
also: Bibulum, Bibulus, M. Bibulus, M. Calpurnius Bibulus
M. Calpurnius Bibulus, Caesar's colleague in the consulship of 59 BC. After being overpowered he withdrew to his house and issued obstructive edicts watching the sky, so that the year was mockingly dated to the consulship of 'Julius and Caesar'.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.19 §2 Bibulus is in heaven
M. Calpurnius Bibulus, Caesar's powerless consular colleague of 59 BC, shut himself in his house and obstructed Caesar by declaring the omens unfavourable. His protest edicts made him an unlikely hero of the optimates.
- Ad Atticum 2.19 §5 I hear Bibulus's edicts have been sent to you
Bibulus's published edicts denouncing Caesar circulated widely as anti-coalition propaganda. Their popularity galled Pompey, who is said here to burn with grief and anger over them.
- Ad Atticum 7.2 §6 those most impudent letters of Bibulus --- which were followed by the most lavish supplication possible
M. Calpurnius Bibulus, governor of Syria, won an exceptionally long public thanksgiving (supplicatio) for victories Cicero thinks exaggerated, since Bibulus never left his fortifications; Cicero is galled that his own real campaigning earned less.
- Ad Familiares 2.17 §6 the augurate of his son
Bibulus wrote to Cicero solely to ask a favour regarding his son's admission to the college of augurs, a prestigious priestly office; Cicero, stung by Bibulus's hostility in every other matter, nonetheless interceded out of old friendship.
- Ad Familiares 12.19 §2 the strategy of M. Bibulus
M. Calpurnius Bibulus, Caesar's consular colleague of 59 BC, governed Syria in 51–50 BC and, lacking forces, simply shut himself up in a fortified town until the raiding Parthians withdrew; Cicero recommends the same Fabian caution.
- Ad Familiares 15.1 §1 M. Bibulus the proconsul
Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (consul 59 BC, Caesar's obstructed colleague), now proconsul of Syria and Cicero's neighbour in the eastern command against the Parthians.
- Ad Familiares 15.4 §7 that Bibulus was at Antioch
M. Calpurnius Bibulus, Caesar's former consular colleague, was now governor of neighbouring Syria. His arrival at Antioch relieved Cicero, who as governor of Cilicia held a parallel but separate command and a sometimes-uneasy rivalry with him.
- Second Philippic §23 Marcus Bibulus
M. Calpurnius Bibulus, Caesar's hostile colleague in the consulship of 59 BC, during which Cicero says he tried to detach Pompey from Caesar before the two were firmly allied.