What is "bibulus"

Usage examples of "bibulus".

And among the fresh faces, noted Caesar with an inward sigh, was that belonging to Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, whom he had once lifted effortlessly and put on top of a lofty cupboard in front of six of his peers.

And that had been the start of almost a year living in the same quarters as Bibulus while Rome in the person of Lucullus showed the city of Mitylene in Lesbos that it could not defy its suzerain.

No member of the Roman nobility would have had any difficulty in deciding which Famous Family branch Bibulus belonged to.

Pompey until the Senate House rafters shook, with Catulus, Hortensius, Bibulus and the rest of the pack baying behind.

Gabinius had not, Caesar noted Bibulus descend to the bottom of the Well, with Cato, Ahenobarbus and young Brutus behind him.

Gabinius was saying, though Bibulus, Cato and Ahenobarbus had anger written large in their faces.

Neither Catulus nor Hortensius had arrived, but Bibulus, one of the heirs apparent, was enough.

Catulus, Bibulus, Gaius Piso and Metellus Scipio, hastening down from the Palatine.

Quintus Lutatius Catulus looked at them and at Bibulus in sick horror, finally understanding the full extent of opposition to the execution of the conspirators.

And interesting that not even Bibulus had produced a canard about Caesar and his clutch of Vestal women.

Cato and Thermus ascended the steps on the side where Pollux sat his painted marble horse, picked their way between the praetors with a grin for Bibulus, and attained the bench.

Silanus, Murena, Cicero, Bibulus and Lucius Ahenobarbus clustered at the top of the Vestal Steps and gazed at what looked like fifteen thousand people.

Cato briefly, which Bibulus and Metellus Scipio interpreted correctly as a long night with Athenodorus Cordylion and the wine flagon.

Some of the praetors were sent to mop up pockets of resistance, including Bibulus to the lands of the Paeligni in mountainous Samnium, and Quintus Cicero to equally craggy Bruttium.

Bibulus or Cato then, though I did encounter Bibulus very quickly after.