Gracchus when he set them in control of the law-courts and in opposition to the Senate. […] This was presumably the conception set forth by Sallust in his Histories. […] Instead, he would set out for the wars again, to Macedonia and to the eastern frontier of the Empire. […] The mob set up an altar and a pillar in the Forum, offering prayers and a cult to Caesar. […] At last, after long doubt and hesitation, Cicero set out for Greece.