Not that women were merely the instruments of masculine policy. […] Yet it can hardly be proved that Caesar devised a comprehensive policy of ruler-worship. […] Suitably adopting a Scipionic policy of exploiting help from Spain to his own advantage, Cn. […] His own security and the maintenance of order dictated the same salutary policy. […] The help of the bankers was private and personal, not the considered policy of a whole class.