On his return from Africa, Cæsar had already had a triumph of four days: there was the Gallic triumph, the Pontic, the Egyptian, and the African one over Juba, in which no Roman general was mentioned. He had now a Spanish triumph, in which the Spanish towns were individually named. The former one had highly pleased the Romans; but this one hurt their feelings, notwithstanding all the presents given to the people and the soldiers, as it was evidently a triumph over their fellow-citizens, although none of them were named. Velleius Paterculus states the amount of the treasures which Cæsar had brought in triumph to Rome, to have been _sexies millies_ (six hundred million _sesterces_ = twenty millions of Prussian dollars). This sum is not at all incredible: even if Cæsar gave to every soldier twenty thousand _sesterces_ (nearly seven hundred dollars), and for all these presents spent even as much as thirty or forty million dollars, which are to be added to that sum, the account is indeed by no means unlikely. But Appian as he is generally understood, states a sum which is quite enormous, even six and a half myriads of talents, which would be a hundred million dollars. But here we are not to think of Attic, but Egyptian, that is to say, copper talents; and thus, though the whole amount does not indeed quite agree with what Velleius tells us, there is no longer any exaggeration. Justus Lipsius did not know how to reconcile this discrepancy. Cæsar returned in October 707. The last five months of his life were spent partly in his preparations for a Parthian war, and partly in making a number of arrangements in civil affairs: even as early as his return from Africa he had regulated the calendar, and thus done away with a source of intolerable favouritism. In the last times of the republic, it was quite a usual thing to intercalate a month at pleasure by a mere ordinance. Curio in fact had fallen out with the senate, because he too wanted to have a month intercalated for himself, and the pontiff refused.