Five civil wars and more in twenty years drained the life-blood of Rome and involved the whole world in strife and anarchy. […] (As Gelzer shows, Cicero, with all the goodwill in the world, cannot attribute nobilitas to C. […] The repercussions of the ten years’ war in Italy echoed over all the world. […] In the capital of the world they were anachronistic and ruinous. […] More is known about his son, a banker whose business had wide ramifications over all the world.