After such wreckage, the task of rebuilding confronted him, stern and thankless. […] Envious detractors there might be but Balbus, the friend of such eminent citizens, could surely have no enemies. 4 Balbus won. […] Senators and knights, such was the party of Caesar. […] Along with the survivors of the Catonian party, Pompeians such as Q. […] Rabirius Postumus) the only such recorded for a long time.