Above all, it was necessary to conciliate the second order in state and society, the Roman knights, converted into a ruinous political force by the tribune C. […] 2 Above, p. 35. […] 3 Above, p. 41 4 Caesar, BC 3, 83 (especially the competition for Caesar’s office of pontifex maximus between Scipio, Lentulus Spinther and Ahenobarbus). […] 4 Above, p. 31. […] 2 Above, p. 114.