Crassus was like M.Poirier in the play--a man who, having become rich, then allowed himself the luxury of an ambition.

If Caesar joined the plot we can well understand that Crassus should have gone with him.

We have all but sufficient authority for saying that it was so, but authority insufficient for declaring it.

That Sallust, in his short account of the first conspiracy, should not have implicated Caesar was a matter of course,[190] as he wrote altogether in Caesar's interest.

That Cicero should not have mentioned it is also quite intelligible.