Like his father before him, Pompeius could not be described as a consistent party politician, for good or for evil. […] Decidius Saxa, made tribune of the plebs by Caesar in 44 B.C., had served under him in the wars, either as a centurion or as an equestrian officer. 1 Saxa may be described as an immigrant or colonial Roman. […] 3 So Cicero described him (Pliny, NH 7, 135) and so did Plancus (Ad fam. 10, 183). […] Satrius (P-W II A, 190), and is described as ‘patronus agri Piceni et Sabini’ (Cicero, De off. 3, 74). […] Piso and Cicero: they are described as neutrals, their policy dishonest. 2 No word here of the consulars Philippus and Marcellus.