In the Consulship of Julius and Caesar - Lucullus kneels before Caesar

With Bibulus at home most of the time, it enabled me to be Consul alone. It was an amazing feeling to be the only Consul with a voice. Neither the Senate or I had to listen to Bibulus and his bad omens to delay laws or motions in the Senate. I governed alone, and as well as, I did as I pleased, mostly. When I had to sign documents to be passed as laws or other forms through the Senate, I began to sign them as "In the Consulship of Julius and Caesar" as a joke. Apparently, it wasn't very funny to most of the senate or Bibulus for that matter. A lot of gossip among Romans went around about my sole consulship, and some of the gossip was quite humorous.
I put my sole consulship to good use. I partitioned that two districts of Campania and a plain of Stellas for agricultural purposes to Roman families with three or more children, and it would be farmed on behave of the commonwealth. These families would be selected by appointed commissioners rather than random picking through lots. The republicans asked for relief, but I cancelled a third of their obligations. Further, I gave them warnings not to let people bid too high for the contracts in the future. Most of the other pleas that I received, I granted with ease. None of the other pleas that I granted were opposed or had anyone intervene. It was a big victory of the Roman people.
When there is calm there will always be a storm coming. Marcus Cato tried delaying the proceedings with useless debate in the Senate. I had a lictor forcibly remove Cato from the Senate house, and the lictor took him to prison. Lucius Lucullus opposed me way too far in one day's proceedings that his methods were becoming unbecoming of the ways in which a senator or official of Rome should conduct himself in the Senate. Lucullus took it too far. I angrily threatened him with legal proceedings to the point that he fell to his knees and begged for my pardon with his rash actions.
Cicero, in one proceedings, made a wonderful speech about the evils of his time, and I granted a long awaited request of Cicero's to have one of his enemies, Publius Clodius, to transfer the status of Clodius from a patrician to a plebeian. By the time the speech was done and the request was granted, it was the ninth hour of the day and late into the proceedings.
I hatched a plan that Vettius announce of our rival factions had began to plan an assassination attempt on Pompey. Vettius mentioned some Roman names of the opposing factions, but everyone was suspicious of the affair that it led to absolutely nothing. To make sure the plan didn't backfire all the way on to me, I poisoned my agent to cover my tracks.


Sources used:

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Penguin Classics Revised Edition, December 18, 2007. Print