157:". Vatinius pressured Vettius to name more names and promised to pass legislation to establish a special tribunal. These changed accusations also were not believed, as there was little corroborating evidence available. Returned to jail, shortly thereafter, Vettius was found dead. His death, officially of natural causes but rumoured to be murder, put an end to thoughts of a special tribunal.
153:, Marcus Iuventius Laterensis, and Cicero – indirectly under the terms of a certain "eloquent ex-consul" – of being part of the plot. It is likely that the changes in his story were induced by Caesar: who "it appears, intimidated Vettius and induced him to alter his testimony... in particularly to drop the name of Brutus, son of Caesar's mistress
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The aftermath of the affair led to no major changes: "no wave of popular indignation arose against
Bibulus or his allies... no discernible pressure was exerted to take preemptive vengeance on those who might have wanted Pompey dead; there were no 'kangaroo courts' in the senate no rush to condemn in
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Views on the affair differ. Cicero, writing around the time (and also accused of being part of it), stressed his suspicions of Caesar and
Vatinius' roles. For him, "Caesar had stage-managed the whole affair for the beginning... as a means of casting suspicion over the rising star of Curio". However,
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of being part of the plot, claiming he had a document in Caesar's handwriting that was intended for
Catiline, which was probably forged. Similar accusations were brought by Quintus Curius, another informant, but these allegations are broadly dismissed: "none of these facts or allegations does much to
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were already sufficiently strained" and that "the notion of
Vettius as Caesar's agent is difficult to swallow had endeavoured to implicate Caesar in the Catilinarian conspiracy" three years earlier in 62 BC. It is also possible that Pompey or his allies concocted the accusations "in order to
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His accusations were disbelieved: he claimed that he had received a dagger from a servant of the consul
Bibulus, to laughter from the senators who asked how he had no other means to acquire a weapon; one of the Curiones protested Paullus could not be involved, for he was in Macedonia. Moreover,
104:, Vettius "announced a conspiracy of leading nobles to murder Pompey". Supposedly, this conspiracy would have involved an attack on Pompey while he attended gladiatorial games in the forum. He included in his list of conspirators many big names: Bibulus (one of the consuls), the
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Vatinius for inciting the affair. This hypothesis, that Vettius was induced to fabricate accusations to ruin the younger Curio's electoral chances and discredit certain opponents of Caesar, has "won the assent of most commentators".
92:, and throwing him into prison". Robert Morstein-Marx, a classicist, notes that Caesar's actions are "consistent with Roman legal custom protesting the dignity of magistrates and attitudes toward those who gave false accusation".
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Bibulus had himself notified Pompey earlier of a plot against his life; after hearing his accusations, the senators ordered
Vettius thrown in jail for his self-incriminating confession of carrying a dagger within the city.
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Suetonius relates that after these accusations, Vettius was then badly handled by Caesar, who "punished quite severely... destroying some of his personal goods, allowing him to be roughly beaten by a crowd at a
194:": the allegations were, "for all practical purposes, discounted". Different interpretations of who instigated the affair lead to different interpretations of who had failed to achieve their goals.
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Vettius as a Caesarian agent and that "Caesar blundered badly" in the plot. Other modern works generally dismiss reading too much into the poorly-understood and badly-documented affair.
173:(1950), argued that Caesar was to blame for the accusations with the additional motive of trying to drive a wedge between Pompey and Cicero. Erich Gruen, in
649:, p. 96. "It is not impossible that Pompey or Pompeian partisans concocted the scheme in order to tarnish the moral image of some of his tormentors".
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