A Consular Anecdote

In 59 BC Julius Caesar and Marcus Bibulus were elected consuls.  Caesar tried to bring forward legislation that would redistribute lands to the poor, and when the opponents of the measure objected, Pompey (who was part of the informal Triumvirate with Caesar and Crassus which actually made the decisions) filled the streets of Rome with his soldiers.  Bibulus tried to block the measure, but he was physcially assaulted and withdrew to his house for the rest of the year, proclaiming the legislation void because of bad omens.  Wags referred to the year as that of "the consulship of Julius and Caesar".