Pompey vs. senate

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans primary

On returning to Italy, Pompey asks the senate to delay the consular election so he can support Piso, but Cato blocks him; Pompey then tries to secure marriage alliances and is criticized for bribing votes.

to Rome with far greater forces than he disbanded; insomuch that if he had designed any movement or innovation in the State, he might have done it without his army. Now, because the law permitted no commander to enter into the city before his triumph, he sent to the senate, entreating them as a favor to him to prorogue the election of consuls, that thus he might be able to attend and give countenance to Piso, one of…