20.2
From that time on Caesar managed all the affairs of state alone and after his own pleasure; so that sundry witty fellows, pretending by way of jest to sign and seal testamentary documents,Torrentius put per iocum after signarent, but such jesting would not be tolerated in actual legal documents. wrote Done in the consulship of Julius and Caesar, instead of Bibulus and Caesar, writing down the same man twice, by name and by surname. Presently too the following verses were on everyone’s lips:— In Caesar’s year, not Bibulus’, an act took place of late; For naught do I remember done in Bibulus’ consulate.
20.3
The plain called Stellas, which had been devoted to the gods by the men of by-gone days, and the Campanian territory, which had been reserved to pay revenues for the aid of the government, he divided without casting lotsThrough a special commission of twenty men. among twenty thousand citizens who had three or more children each. When the publicans asked for relief, he freed them from a third part of their obligation, and openly warned them in contracting for taxes in the future not to bid too recklessly. He freely granted everything else that anyone took it into his head to ask, either without opposition or by intimidating anyone who attempted it.
