It is surely time for some reaction from the ‘traditional’ and conventional view of the period. […] 2 The Triumviral period is tangled, chaotic and hideous. […] Cf., however, no less pessimistic remarks about an earlier period, Hist, 1, 12 M. […] Crassus, married Caecilia Metella, daughter of Creticus (ILS 881), presumably in the period 68-63 B.C. […] 6 For the provincial governors of that period, E.