Caesar's triumph (Orbis Romanum)

Timeline:  Orbis Romanum

September 7 44BCE Rome Julius Caesar returns and the senate awards him a triumph. Prisoners in chains and coaches with booty contribute to the mile-long procession. The recovered aquilae standards of Crassus' lost legions are paraded in front of Caesar's carriage.

September 8 44BCE Rome Julius Caesar announces large public works financed with the spoils of sacked Ctesiphon. The Pontine marshes will be drained greatly improving health conditions in the city. Grain storages will be built in Ostia, Rome' harbor. Each citizen will have a guaranteed stipend of grain which he cannot sell or gamble away. Inspectors will be appointed to investigate bribery and corruption throughout the empire. Caesar's fiercest enemies in the senate are now his greatest supporters after he magnaminously pardoned their assassination attempt. He only has to make his wishes known and they are approved instantly.

September 12 44BCE Rome Julius Caesar is greatly disappointed with the administration of Marcus Antonius during his absence. He had hoped that Marcus would succeed him after a period of apprenticeship but now this is clearly impossible. Although Marcus is a loyal friend and a good general he is not cut out to be a state leader. Caesar send him to Gaul with orders to prepare an invasion of barbaric Germany.