borrowing.  Wherefore, when the multitude demanded that there should be an annulment of debts, he would not do it, saying; “I too am heavily involved.”  He was easily seen to be wresting away the property of others by his position of supremacy, and for this his companions as well as others disliked him.  These men had bought considerable of the confiscated property, in some cases for more than its real value, in the hope of retaining it free of charge, but found themselves compelled to pay the full price.

[-51-] To such persons he paid no attention.  However to a certain extent he did court the favor of the people as individuals.  To the majority he allowed the interest they were owing, an act by which he had incurred the enmity of Pompey, and he released them from all rent for one year, up to the sum of five hundred denarii; furthermore he raised the valuations on goods in which it was allowable according to law for loans to be paid to their value at the time of payment, and this after having considerably lowered the price for the populace on all confiscated property.  By these acts he gained the attachment of the people; and he won the affection of the members of his party and those who had fought for him also.  For upon the senators he bestowed priesthoods and offices,—­some which lasted for the rest of that year and some which extended to the following season.  In order to reward a larger number he appointed ten praetors for the next year and more than the customary number of priests.  To the pontifices and the augurs, of whom he was one, and to the so-called Fifteen he added one each, although he really wished to take all the priesthoods himself, as had been decreed.  To the knights in his army and to the centurions and subordinate officers he gave among other rights the important privilege of choosing some of their own number for the senate to fill the places of those who had perished.

[-52-] The unrest of the troops, however, made trouble for him.  They had expected to obtain great things, and finding their rewards not less, to be sure, than their deserts, but inferior to their expectations, they raised an outcry.  The most of them were in Campania, being destined to sail on ahead to Africa.  These nearly killed Sallust, who had been appointed praetor so as to recover his senatorial office, and when escaping them he set out for Rome to lay before Caesar what was being done, a number followed him, sparing no one on their way, and killed among others whom they met two senators.  Caesar as soon as he heard of their approach wished to send his guard against them, but fearing that it too might join the uprising he remained quiet until they reached the suburbs.  While they waited there he sent to them and enquired what wish or what need had brought them.  Upon their replying that they would tell him face to face he allowed them to enter the city unarmed, save as to their swords; these they were regularly accustomed to wear in the city, and they would not