Both the framework and the bulk of the governing coalition is revealed in the relations and alliances between that house and two other groups. […] On Pompeius’ relations with the Lentuli, below, p. 44. […] Junius Brutus Albinus, a distant relation, had been a legate of Caesar in Gaul. […] His relations with Octavianus did not improve. […] Between Antonius and Cicero there lay no ancient grudge, no deep-seated cause of an inevitable clash: on the contrary, relations of friendship, to which they could each with justice appeal.