In 78 BCE, after Sulla’s death, he returned to Rome and started on his political career in theconventional way, by acting as a prosecuting advocate—of course, in his case, againstprominent Sullan counter-revolutionaries. His first target, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, wasdefended by Quintus Hortensius, the leading advocate of the day, and was acquitted by theextortion-court jury, composed exclusively of senators.Caesar then went to Rhodes to study oratory under a famous professor, Molon. En route he wascaptured by pirates (one of the symptoms of the anarchy into which the Roman nobility hadallowed the Mediterranean world to fall). Caesar raised his ransom, raised a naval force,captured his captors, and had them crucified—all this as a private individual holding no publicoffice. In 74 BCE, when Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, renewed war on the Romans,Caesar raised a private army to combat him.In his absence from Rome, Caesar was made a member of the politico-ecclesiastical college ofpontifices; and on his return he gained one of the elective military tribuneships. Caesar nowworked to undo the Sullan constitution in cooperation with Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius), whohad started his career as a lieutenant of Sulla but had changed sides since Sulla’s death. In 69or 68 BCE Caesar was elected quaestor (the first rung on the Roman political ladder). In thesame year his wife, Cornelia, and his aunt Julia, Marius’s widow, died. In public funeral orationsin their honour, Caesar found opportunities for praising Cinna and Marius. Caesar afterwardmarried Pompeia, a distant relative of Pompey. Caesar served his quaestorship in the provinceof Farther Spain (modern Andalusia and Portugal).Caesar was elected one of the curule aediles for 65 BCE, and he celebrated his tenure of thisoffice 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 thesuppression of Catiline’s conspiracy in 63 BCE, Caesar, as well as the millionaire MarcusLicinius Crassus, was accused of complicity. It seems unlikely that either of them had committedhimself to Catiline; but Caesar proposed in the Senate a more merciful alternative to the deathpenalty, which the consul Cicero was asking for the arrested conspirators. In the uproar in theSenate, Caesar’s motion was defeated.Caesar was elected a praetor for 62 BCE. Toward the end of the year of his praetorship, ascandal was caused by Publius Clodius in Caesar’s house at the celebration there of the rites,for women only, of Bona Dea (a Roman deity of fruitfulness, both in the Earth and in women).Caesar consequently divorced Pompeia. He obtained the governorship of Farther Spain for61–60 BCE. His creditors did not let him leave Rome until Crassus had gone bail for a quarter ofhis debts; but a military expedition beyond the northwest frontier of his province enabled Caesarto win loot for himself as well as for his soldiers, with a balance left over for the treasury. Thispartial financial recovery enabled him, after his return to Rome in 60 BCE, to stand for theconsulship for 59 BCE.[10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Bob SagetAmerican 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 FullerHouse. Saget was the original host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, and the voice ofnarrator Ted Mosby on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.Following a short stint as a member ofCBS’ The Morning Program in early 1987, Saget was cast as Danny Tanner in Full House,which became a success with family viewers, and landed in the Nielsen ratings’ Top 30beginning with season three. In 1989, Saget began as the host of America’s Funniest HomeVideos, a role he held until 1997. During the early 1990s, Saget worked on both Full House andAFV simultaneously. In 2009, he returned to AFV for the 20th-anniversary one-hour specialco-hosted with Tom Bergeron.In 2014, his book Dirty Daddy was released, in which he writesabout his career, comedy influences, and experiences with life and death. He embarked on asmall tour in support of the book, including the Pemberton Music Festival, where he introducedSnoop Dogg prior to performing his own set. In the same year, he toured Australia for the firsttime with a stand-up show called Bob Saget Live: The Dirty Daddy Tour. The show wasperformed in the major cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth.Bob Saget, thestand-up comic and actor who was known as Danny Tanner on the long-running sitcom “FullHouse,” as the host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and for his deadpan, ribald stageroutines, was found dead on Sunday in Orlando, Fla. He wa