Today, I founded my very own triumvirate.
The best thing about it? Nothing like this has ever existed before! A triumvirate is often described as a “three-man alliance”—and that’s exactly what it is. If you want to break it down in your language: “Tri” comes from tres, meaning “three”, and “virate” is from vir, meaning “men”. Pretty clever of me, isn’t it?

See, the Senate is refusing to fulfill Pompey’s demands for the settlement of his veterans—his loyal soldiers who fought for Rome. Typical Senate nonsense.

I need funding for my operations in Gaul, and who better to support me than Crassus, the richest man in Rome? Pompey, on the other hand, holds immense military power and is considered Rome’s most successful general. And me? Well, I have enormous political influence. You see where this is going.

To seal the deal, my daughter Julia will be marrying Pompey next April (59 BC). Her former fiancé, Quintus Servilius Caepio? Forget him. He’s old news.

Back to the triumvirate: Crassus wants more political power, and Pompey wants his Eastern successes recognized and his land reform for veterans passed.

So here’s the plan: Crassus provides the money, Pompey teams up with me to push through his land law, and I pull the political strings.

For now, it’s a win-win-win.
But shhh 🤫 — in the end, I will be the true winner.

I’m the only one who stands to gain real power in the long run. I already have a few ideas about how this will all play out… Maybe the scholar Varro saw it coming when he called our alliance a “three-headed monster.” Not very flattering—but strangely accurate.

Soon, everyone in Rome will know about our triumvirate. And they’ll be afraid. You’ll see!

I even coined a quote to mark this new era:

We have neither eternal allies nor eternal enemies. We only have permanent interests.

Gaius Julius Caesar