Divus Julius
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Being, therefore, now supported by the interest of his father-in-law and son-in-law, of all the provinces he made choice of
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Gaul
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, as most likely to furnish him with matter and occasion for triumphs. At first indeed he received only Cisalpine-
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Gaul
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,
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with the addition of
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Illyricum
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, by a decree proposed by Vatinius to the people; but soon afterwards obtained from the senate Gallia-Comata also, the senators being apprehensive, that if they should refuse it to him, that province, also, would be granted him by the people.
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Elated now with his success, he could not refrain from boasting, a few days afterwards, in a full senate-house, that he had, in spite of his enemies, and to their great mortification, obtained all he desired, and that for the future he would make them, to their shame, submissive to his pleasure. One of the senators observing, sarcastically:
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That will not be very easy for a womanAlluding, probably, to certain scandals of a gross character which were rife against Caesar. See before, c. ii. (p. 2). to do,
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he jocosely replied,
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Semiramis formerly reigned in Assyria, and the Amazons possessed great part of Asia.