By means of his wealth he had risen to power and had conquered and killed Spartacus, of the honor and glory of which Pompey robbed him.

Then he had been made Consul.

When Caesar had gone as Propraetor to Spain, Crassus had found the money.

Now Caesar had come back, and was hand and glove with Crassus.

When the division of the spoil came, some years afterward--the spoil won by the Triumvirate--when Caesar had half perfected his grand achievements in Gaul, and Crassus had as yet been only a second time Consul, he got himself to be sent into Syria, that by conquering the Parthians he might make himself equal to Caesar.