In the first place, Pompeius and his decorative father-in-law, Q. […] The party of the Republic was no place for a novus homo: the Lentuli were synonymous with aristocratic pride, Ap. […] Claudius Pulcher certainly took place in 54 B.C. […] In Syria Bassus had stirred up civil war two years before, seizing the strong place of Apamea. […] Their employment in the first place for his own political interests calls neither for surprise nor for excuse.