Caesar was soon reinstated, but Metellus Nepos returned to Pompey in the East, and nothing came of the conspiracy.

It is only noticed here as evidence of the feeling which existed as to Cicero in Rome, and as explaining the irritation on both sides indicated in the correspondence between Cicero and Metellus Celer, the brother of Nepos,[216] whom Cicero had procured the government of Gaul.
The third letter from Cicero in this year was to Sextius, who was then acting as Quaestor--or Proquaestor, as Cicero calls him--with Antony as Proconsul in Macedonia.

It is specially interesting as telling us that the writer had just completed the purchase of a house in Rome from Crassus for a sum amounting to about L30,000 of our money.

There was probably no private mansion in Rome of greater pretension.

It had been owned by Livius Drusus, the Tribune--a man of colossal fortune, as we are told by Mommsen--who was murdered at the door of it thirty years before.