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 | | The other magistracies were gradually opened to the plebs: in 356 bc the dictatorship, an extraordinary magistracy, the incumbent of which was appointed in times of great danger; in 350 bc, the censorship; in 337 bc, the praetorship; and in 300 bc, the pontifical and augural colleges. |
 | | In 67 bc the statesman and general Pompey the Great, who had fought the Marian party in Africa, Sicily, and Spain, cleared the Mediterranean of pirates and was then put in charge of the war against Mithradates. |
 | | The Senate, wishing to terminate Caesar's military command and defeat his second stand for the consulship in 49 bc, demanded either Caesar's disbanding of his legions, and his presence in Rome at the time of the election, or his continued command and his renunciation of claims to the consulship. |
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