His first target, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, was defended by Quintus Hortensius, the leading advocate of the day, and was acquitted by the extortion-court jury, composed exclusively of senators.

Caesar then went to Rhodes to study oratory under a famous professor, Molon. En route he was captured by pirates (one of the symptoms of the anarchy into which the Roman nobility had allowed the Mediterranean world to fall). Caesar refused his ransom, reused a naval force, captured his captors, and had them crucified-all this as a private individual holding no public office. In 74 BCE, when Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, renewed war on the Romans, Caesar refused a private army to combat him. In his absence from Rome, Caesar was made a member of the politico ecclesiastical college of pontifices; and on his return he gained one of the elective military tribuneships. Caesar now worked to undo the Sullan constitution in cooperation with Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius), who had started his career as a lieutenant of Sulla but had changed sides since Sulla’s death. In 69 or 68 BCE Caesar was elected quaestor (the first rung on the Roman political ladder). In the same year his wife, Cornelia, and his aunt Julia, Marius’s widow, died. In public funeral orations in their honour, Caesar found opportunities for praising Cinna and Marius. Caesar afterward married Pompeia, a distant relative of Pompey. Caesar served his quaestorship in the province of Farther Spain (modern Andalusia and Portugal). Caesar was elected one of the curule aediles for 65 BCE, and he celebrated his tenure of this office by unusually lavish expenditure with borrowed money. He was elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE by a political dodge. By now he had become a controversial political figure. After the suppression of Catiline’s conspiracy in 63 BCE, Caesar, as well as the millionaire Marcus Licinius Crassus, was accused of complicity. It seems unlikely that either of them had committed himself to Caroline; but Caesar proposed in the Senate a more merciful alternative to the death penalty, which the consul Cicero was asking for the arrested conspirators. In the uproar in the Senate, Caesar’s motion was defeated. Caesar was elected a praetor for 62 BCE. Toward the end of the year of his praetorship, a scandal was caused by Publius Clodius in Caesar’s house at the celebration there of the rites, for women only, of Bona Sea (a Roman deity of fruitfulness, both in the Earth and in women). Caesar consequently divorced Pompeia. He abstained the governorship of Farther Spain for 61-60 BCE. His creditors did not let him leave Rome until Crassus had gone bail for a quarter of his debts; but a military expedition beyond the northwest frontier of his province enabled Caesar to win loot for himself as well as for his soldiers, with a balance left over for the treasury. This partial financial recovery enabled him, after his return to Rome in 60 BCE, to Stand for the consulship for 59 BCE. [10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Bid saget American comedian Robert Lane Saget was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. He portrayed Danny Tanner on the sitcom Full House and its sequel Fuller House. Saget was the original host of America’s funniest Home Videos, and the voice of narrator Ted Mosby on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Following a short stint as a member of CBS’ The Morning Progrem in early 1987, Saget was cast as Danny Tanber in Full House, whichbecame a success with family viewers, and landed in the Nielsen ratings’ Top 30 beginning with season three. In 1989, Saget began as the host of America’s funniest Home videos, a role he held until 1997. During the early 1980s, Saget worked on both Full House and AFV simultaneously. In 2009, he returned to AFV for the 20th- anniversary one – hour special co-hosted with Tom Bergeron. In 2014, his book Dirty Daddy was released, in which he writes about his career, comedy influences, and experiences with life and death. He embarked on a small tour in support of the book, including the Pemberton Music Festival, where he introduced Snoop Dogg prior to performing his own set. In the same year, he toured Australia for the first time with a stand-up show called Bob Saget Live: The Dirty Daddy Tour.