imperator optimates wanted to stop generals from controlling too many soldiers

at once

Optimate! Quomodo te habes!

because it concentrate power

Gabinius only had 2 legions though

and he was all the way in Syria

salve patrician

Salve!

more than one is too many for some

Indeed

Too many

was he in syria

interesting

That should have been a rule

Less civil wars

:/

Gabinius was governor of Syria

and he was ordered by Pompey to invade Egypt

Who was gabinius

and Cato and the Optimates opposed it

I only know late empire

Not every expansion is a good expansion given the time

Yes!

Aulus Gabinius was a Roman senator who was appointed Governor of Syria

Deciding what to conquer was a VERY complicates shit, return of investment kinda shit

around the time that Caesar was in Gaul, Gabinius was putting down revolts in Judea

and also invaded Egypt when Ptolemy XII was overthrown by his daughter

he also attempted to intervene in a Parthian succession war

Scotland was decided not worth it, even tho they DID conquer it they left cause of that

anyway my point is none of those were wars of expansionism

can't get involved in every single conflict, sending romans off to die

Jews should have been purged like the britons

Gabinius had to go into Egypt to put Ptolemy XII back into power in order to secure the grain supply

Or sabinians

which Cato and Cicero opposed

Fuckers

and which Pompey ordered in the first place

regardless, to say Optimates opposed all expansion is absurd

and then Cato and Cicero tried to prosecute Gabinius

in about 5 I've gotta meet contractors

but Caesar ordered Cicero to be the defense attorney of Gabinius