oman citizenship. He next married Pompeia, granddaughter of Sulla and relative of Pompey the Great, and evidence indicates that he supported important military assignments for Pompey in 67 and 66. As aedile in 65 BC, he achieved great popularity--and went into debt--by financing splendid games. He also probably cooperated with Marcus Licinius Crassus in an attempt to annex Egypt, in supporting Catiline for the consulship, and in promoting the land-distribution bill of Publius Servilius Rullus. In 64 BC, Caesar presided over trials of those who had committed murder during Sulla's proscriptions. The following year, he prosecuted Gaius Rabirius, and used that trial to attack the legality of the Senatus consultum ultimum, the Senate's decree of a state of emergency. In the elections of that year, massive bribery helped him become Pontifex Maximus. Caesar took no part in Catiline's conspiracy, but he courted popularity by opposing the execution of Catiline's accomplices and, as praetor in 62, by supporting measures favorable to Pompey. Soon after, however, he divorced Pompeia on suspicion of infidelity with Publius Clodius, although he refused to testify against the latter in the Bona Dea affair. Caesar later married Calpurnia. Caesar became governor of Further Spain in 61 after Crassus had helped pacify his creditors. Military action in Spain restored Caesar's finances, and he outwitted his political enemies by forgoing a triumph (the traditional victor's procession in Rome) in order to win election to the consulate with the support of Crassus and Pompey. Faced with increased opposition from conservatives like Cato the Younger, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed the First Triumvirate to further their ambitions After obtaining a reduction of the Asian tax contracts for Crassus, ratification of Pompey's postwar arrangements in the East, and land for Pompey's veterans, Caesar received the governorships of Illyricum, Cisalpine Gaul, and Transal...
