The Senate's Plan to Charge Caesar With Bribery

Bribery was tolerated as long as everyone involved exercised a little discretion. But bribery turned from accepted under the table practice to scandal when it came out into the open, and Caesar didn't even bother to hide what he was doing. It made everyone crazy. No one had clean hands except for maybe stodgy or cateau, but Caesar was making a mockery of their gentlemanly agreements. This break in social custom, coupled with the amounts and extent of his bribery, was what made people want to teach him a lesson.