A Roman Consul elected in 48 BC along with Julius Caesar. He is generally regarded as a puppet of Caesar, having a long friendship with the imperator. Isauricus became a very controversial figure after Caesar left him in Rome as the sole head of state while Caesar went to do battle with Pompey the Great. Along with Gaius Trebonius, Isauricus was seen as the perpetrator of the complete destruction of the Roman economy in the 1st Century B.C., and the populist leader and magistrate Marcus Caelius led a mob against the regime in 48 B.C. See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century). ... For modern diplomatic consuls, see Consulate general. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s Years: 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC 50 BC 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC... Bust of Julius Caesar Painting of Gaius Julius Caesar A coin with Julius Caesars head on it Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ... The Latin word imperator was a title originally roughly equivalent to commander during the period of the Roman Republic. ... This article refers to the Roman General. ... Gaius Trebonius (died 43 BC) was a military commander and politician of the late Roman Republic, a trusted associate of Julius Caesar who later participated in his assassination. ... Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... A magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. ... Marcus Caelius Rufus was a Roman orator and politician. ...

In March, Marcus Caelius began talking of abolishing all debt in the city, as even the upper classes had begun to feel the pressure of money, Cicero's wife Terentia was forced to sell most of her jewelry. Caelius had no jurisdiction on the standing of debts, his only magistracy being in the administration of foreigners in Rome. Trebonius was to handle debts. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero (standard English pronunciation ; Classical Latin pronunciation ) (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin orator and prose stylist. ... Terentia Varrones (lived 1st century BC) was the wife of the renowned orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. ...

After setting up a tribunal within earshot of Trebonius's in the Forum for the second time, Isauricus himself went to the Forum to confront the rouge magistrate, followed by a retinue of fasces-wielding guards. After a heated argument on the tribunal, Isauricus famously pulled an axe out of one of the fasces and destroyed Caelius's wooden magistrate's chair. Caelius and Isauricus nearly came to blows, and the mob became so confrontational with the Consul that the guards actually needed to unsheath thier axes to ward off the mobbing crowd. This article is about courts of law. ... The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum, although the Romans referred to it more often as the Forum Magnum or just the Forum) was the central area around which ancient Rome developed, in which commerce, business, prostitution, cult and the administration of justice took place. ... A statue of Cincinnatus resigning from dictatorship by returning the Roman fasces Fasces (the plural, almost a plurale tantum, of the Latin word fascis, bundle) symbolise summary power and jurisdiction. ...

Isauricus was further insulted by Caelius in May of the same year, when he returned to the Forum to demand an abolishment of all debts, no matter what size or to whom, in Rome. Some believe that Caelius's demands were in reaction to Isauricus's whispered threats of arresting Caelius. No matter who made the first wrong move, Isauricus had troops that were passing through Rome on thier way to the war between Caesar and Pompey, and used them. They fought thier way through the Forum to try and reach Caelius, but were attacked by the Roman mob, the first time Roman citizens had attacked thier own troops within the city. This article is about the month of May. ...

Caelius made fun of Isauricus by holding up his repaired magistrate's chair, which was held together with leather straps. Famously, Isauricus was beaten by his father with a strap of leather, which was shameful for the family name, though Isauricus himself claimed it had toughened him up.

Caelius repeatedly escaped Isauricus, and was not arrested but went to join Titus Annius Milo in an insurrection against Caesar, and were both captured and executed. Titus Annius Milo Papianus was a Roman political agitator, the son of C. Papius Celsus, but adopted by his mothers father, T. Annius Luscus. ...