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THE
HISTORY
O F
THE
LIFE
O F
Marcus
TviUius
Cicero.
Hunc
igtturfpeUetnus.
ocpropofitumfit
obis
exemplum.
Hie
fe
profecijfe
iiat^
ut
CiczKO
valde
placebit.
Qu
I N T
I
L.
Inilit.
1.
X. i.
By
CONYERS
MiDDLETOMy
D.
D.
Principal
Library
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of
the
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f
CamiriJ^i^
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Edition.
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'THE
HISTORY
OF
The L I
F
E
of
M.
7ULLIUS
CICERO.
S
E
C
T.
IX.
CICERO
as
prefent
t
the
death
A.
UA.
709.
of Csefiir
in
the Senate
j
where
be
Cic.
63.
bad tbe
pleafure:^
e
tells
us,
to
fee
tbe
j^
^^J^n-
/}Tii;i/
eriftf
s
be
deferved\o'].
By
|,j.
p.
cor*
this
accident
he
was
freed
at
once
fi-om all fub-
helius
Do
jedion
to
a
fuperior,
nd
all
the
uneaiinefs
and
^abblla.
indignity
of
mans^ng
a
power,
which
every
moment
could
opprefs
him. He
was
now
with--
out
competition
he
firft
Citizen in
Rome
;
the
firft
in that
Tedii:
and
aXithority
oth
with the
3enate
and
People,
which
illuftrious
merit
and
fervices
will
neceflarily
ive
in
a
free
City.
The
Con(pinttors
oiifidered
Urn
as
fuch,
aiid
reckoned
upon
him
as
their fure friend
:
for
they
had
no
Iboner
finiihed their
work,
than
Brutus^
lifting
p
bis
bloodydagger^
called
out
upon
bim
by
name^
to
congratulate
ith
him
on
Vol. III.
B
the
[ ]
Qgid
mihi
attuleritifU
intersttt
Tyraiuii?
Ad
Att.
domini
macatio,
pcaeter
lae-
14*
14.
titian,
aam
ocdii
cepii
jufto
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^e
History
of
tbe
Life
A.
Urb.
709.
the
recovery
of
their
liberty
p]
:
and
when
they
^C
ff
^^'
^^^
^^^
prefently
fter
into
the
Forum,
with
M.
Anton
I-
^^^^ir
daggers
in their
hands,
proclaiming
iberty
us.
P.
Con-
to
the
City,they
proclaimed
t
the
ftime
time
NELius
Do-
the
name
of
Cicero
\
in
hopes
to
recommend
the
LABELLA.
jyHj^c
F
their
aft,
by
the
credit
of
his
appro-ation
[j].
This
gave
Antony
pretence
o
charge
him
afterwards
in
public,
idi
beit^grivy
to
tbe
con-
/piracy
and
the
principal
avtfer
of
it
\y]
:
but
it
is
certain^
that
he
was
,not
ft
all
accjuaint
with
it
:
for
tho* he
had.
the
ftrii^eft
riend/hi
with the
chief
aftors,
and
they
the
greateft
on-idence
in
him,
yet
his
age^
diaradler,
ad
dig-,
nity,
rendered
him
wholly
unfit,
o
bear
a
part
in
an
attempt
of
that
nature
;
and
to
embark
himfelf in
an
affair
fo
defperate,
ith
a
number
of
men,
who,
excepting
ftw
of
their
Leaders,
were
ail
either
too
young
to
be
trufted,
r
too
oh*
fure^
even
to
be known
by
him
[j].
He
could
have been
of
little
or
no
fervice
to
them
m
the
execution
of
the
a6t,
yet
of much
greater
in
ju-^
ftifying
tafterwards
to
the
City,
for
having
had
no
fhare
in
it,nor
any
perfonal
ntereft,
A
makQ
his
authority
fuipeaed.
Thefe
were
die
true
reafons
without
doubt,
why
Brutus
and
CafTius
did
not
impart
the
defign
to
hun:
had
it,
een
from
any
other
motive,
as
fome writers
hftve
fu t
M
Cgfoe
interfefto
* ille fariofos
me
priacipeiti
tim
cruentum
alte
eztoUeai dick
/uifle.
Utinim
qvidem
M.
Brutus
pugionem
C/V/r
fuifleiDy
olellus
nobis
noA
nem
nofninatim
exdamavit,
eflec.
Ep.fam.
12.
3.
it.
2.
anqiie
i
recuperatam
liberta-
[j]
Qaam
verifimile
porrd
tem
eft
gntulatiu.
Philip.
ell,.in
tot
hominibnt
p rtim
2.12.
obfcnris,
artim
adolerce ti-
M
Dto.
p. 249.
busy
peminem
occu1tantibus
[r
J
Cefiuem
meo
eonfilio feeum
nomen
latere
potoiflTe
interfeaum.
[Phil.
.
n.]
Phil.
2.
11.
Ydbicnimpatcherrimifa^
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rULLIUS
CICERO.
j
luggcfted,
r
had
itadmitted
any
interpretation
. Urb.
709,
injurious
o
his
honor,
he
muft
have been often
Coff
reproached
ith
it
h^Antofiy^
nd his
other
ad-
m.
Antoni-
verfariesof thofe
times,
who
were
io ftudious
to
us.
P.
CaR-
invent and
propagate
every
calumny
that
could
i'*v$
Do-
deprelshiscredit.
tannot
however
intirelycquit
^**^''**
him of
being
infbme
degreeaccefifory
o
the deadi
of
Csefar: for
it
is
evident
from
ieveral of
hi^
Letters,
that
he
had
an
expedtation
f
fuch
an
at^
tempt,
and
from
what
quarter
itwould
come
%
and
not
onelyexpe ed,
but
wifhed
it
:
he
prb^
phefied
ery
early,
hat
Cafat^s
reign
could
mt
Uftfix
monfbfj
but
muft
neaffartly
dl^
eitber
iy
vMince,
or
of
i^fi^
^^
hoped
to
live
to
fee
it
[t]
i
he
knew
the
difafifeftion
f
the
greateft
nd
b^fl:
._^^
of
the
City;
which
they
exprefled
ith
great
freedom
in
their
Letters,
and
with
much
more,
we
may
imiagine,
n their
private
onver tion
:
he
knew
the fierce and
haughtyfpirit
f
Bruttq
and Caflius
;
and
their
impatience
f
a
Mafteri
and
activated
a
ftrift
Correfpondence
ith
them
both
at
this
time,'
s
if
for
die
opportunity
f
cx^
citing
hrm
to
fome
aft
of
vigor.
On
the
news^
that
Atticus fent
bin),
of
C^fat^s
image
being
plaeed
in the
Temple
0^
luirinus^
adjoining
o
that
of
the
Goddefs
olus
;
/
bad
ratber^
fays
he,
have
him the
Comrade
of,
RomuluS^
than
of
the
Goddefs
Safety
u]
:
referring
o
Romulufs
fate^
of
being
killed
in
theSenaceJ
In
another Letter
it
fcetm
to
be
intimated,
that Atticus and he
had
been
contriving,
r
talking
t
lead
together,
how
Bfutus
migHt
be
fpirited
p
to
fome
attempt
B
2
of
[/]Jm uitelligrs
d
r^g*
left,
ut
per
adverfaricM,
ut
miQ^yix
ftmcftre
iSk
poS^m^
ipfe
per
(L.id
fperoiiris ao-
po9
tin\fa
hoc
am6fmmxi$
bis
fore.
Ad Att.
z.
8.
lib
vXfipxio^
jio
dudmo*
I
M
Eom
ain^w
Quirinp
nee
AO0
l|it,
fiec
sliw
9^-
mslo,
quani
^loti.
Ad
Att.
cidec
Contut
ifte
nefiplTf
is.
15.
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Ck.
63
Coff.
M.
Amtohi-
ws.
P.
Cor-
WBLIVS
Do-
C
LABBLLA.
c(
CC
4
^
HisTOKY
of
the
Life
A.
Urb^rog;
f
that
kind,
by
fetting
efore him
the
feme
and
'^'
^
glory
of
his
Anccftors
:
Does
Brutus
then tell
^^
us,
fays
he,
that
Csefar
brings
with him
glad
^^
tidings
o
honeft
men
? where will
he
find
them
?
unlefs
he
hangs
himfelf. But how fe-
curely
s
he
now
intrenched
on
all
fides
?
What
ufe then
of
your
fine
invention
;
the
picture
f
^^
old Brutus and Ahala
with
the
verles
under,
**
which
I
law in
your
Gallery
Yet
w^t
after
**
all
can
he
do
?*'
[x]
One
cannot
help
obfer-
ving
likewife,
n his
Pieces,
ddrefled about this
time
to
Brutus,
how
artfully
e
fidls
into
a
la-^
mentation
of
the
times,
and
of
the
particular
n-^
happinefs
f
Brutus
himfelf,
in
being
deprived
by
them
of
ail
the
hopes
and
ufe
of his
great
ta-ents
; putting
im
in
mind
at
the
fame
time
of
bis
double
defcent
i-om
Anceflors,
who
had
ac-uired
immortal
glory
by
delivering
ome
from
fcrvitude.
hus
he concludes
his
treatife
onfa^
mous
Orators.
Whbm
of
old
Bratus
and
Ahala.|oii
ed
together
in
ione
piSure,
with
the
yerfes
under,
had
gi-en
a
handle
perhaps
o
a
con-
verlation
betwden
Cicero
and
him,
how
Brutus
might
be
incited
by
the
example
of
thofe
great
Anceftors
to
dif-
folve
the
tyranny
of
Caeftr.
Itieemsalio
^nry
probable,
that
this
very
pidure
of
At*
ticus^s
invention,
as
Cicero
calls
it,
might
give
qcotfion
to
the
thought
and
coinage
of
that
filver
medal
or
inM-
r/ir/,
which
is
ftill
extant,
with
the
headwind
names
of
thofe
two
old
Atrlots;
Bm*
ttts
on
the
one
fide,
Ahala
on
the other.
Vid.
Thefaur.
MoielL
in
Fam.
Junia.
ab
It
I.
[4r]
Itane
nunciat
Brutus,
ilum
ad bonos
viros
fuV ^/
Ai ?
fed
ubi
eos?
nififorte
ft
fufpendit?
ie
autem ut
lultumeftf
ubi
igitur
/Ap-
Vx^9^
illud
tuum
quod
vi-
di
m
Pdrtbiwui^
Alubm
U
Bratum? fed
quid
fiiciat
ad
Atti3.
40.
FdrtbtnoKi
is
fuppoied
o
denote
fome
room
or
gallery
in
Brutus*s,
r more
proba-ly
tn
Atticus*s
houfe,
adorn*
ed with
the
Images
or
Por-raits
of
the
great
men
of
^9mit
under
each
of
which,
as
Cornelius
Nepos
tells
us,
[in
vit.Att.
c.
18.]
Atticus
had
feverally
efcribed
their
principal
ds
and
honors,
in
four
or
five
verfes
of
his
own
compofing
where
the
coa-
tempJacion
f
thefe
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iffM.
nrLLIUS
CICERO.
s
**
Wh
e
n
i
look
upon you,
Brutus,
I
am
A.
Urb.
709.
**
grieved
to
fee
your
youth,
running,
as
it
q^'
**
were,
in
full
career
through
the
midft
of
m. Awtoni-
'
glory,
ftop'd
fhort
by
the wretched
fate
of
us.
P.
Co*.
your
Country.
This
grief
fits
heavy
upon
^ J;^^'
5'
me,
and
on
our
common
friend
Atticus,
the
' ^**''''^'
f*
partner
of
my
affedion,
and
good
opinion
f
**
you
:
we
heartily
ilh
you
well
;
wifli
to
fee
^*
you
reap
the
fruit of
your
virtue
;
and
to
*^
live
in
a
Republic,
that
may
give
you
the
**
opportunity,
ot
onely
to
revive,
but
to
in-
erode the
honor
and
memory
of
the
two
no-
^*
ble
families,
from
which
you
defcend
for
^
the
Forum
was
wholly
yours
;
yours
all
that
^^
courfe of
glory
you,
of
all
the
young
plea-
^*
ders,
brought
thither,
not
onely
a
tongue,
**
ready
formed
by
the exercifeof
fpcaking,
ut
**
had
enriched
your
Or ory
by
the
furniture
**
alio
of the
feverer
arts
;
and
by
the
help
of
ff
the
i^n^e
rts
had
joined
o
a
perfeAion
f elo-
^'
quence
the
ornanient
of
every
virtue. We
**
are
doubly
lorry
therefore
on
your
account,
**
that
you
want
the
benefit of
the
Republic
'^
the
Republic
f
you
:
but
though
thisodious
^^
ruin
ot
the
City
extinguifhes
he
ufe
of
your
^^
abilities,
o
on
flill,rutus,
to
purfue
our
ufual
fludies,
?^.'*
These
paflages
eem
to
give
a
realbnable
ground
to
believe,
that
Cicero,
though
a
flran-
ger
to
the
particular
ounfilsof
the
Confpirators,
had
yet
a
general
otion
of
their
delign,
as
well
AS
ibme
(hate
in
promoting
it.
In
his
reply
to
Antony's
charge,
he
does
not
deny
his
expeAatt*
on
of
it,
freely
wns
his
joy
for
it,
and
thanks
him
for
giving
him
an
honor,
which
he
had
not
merited,
of
bearing
parr
in
it
;
he
calls
it,
^*
the
moft
glorious
dt,
which
had
ever
been
B
3
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LABELLA.
6
The
Hist
oKY
of
fbe
Life
A.Urb. 1
69.
done,
notonely
in
that,
but
in
any
other
^c
ff
^^^y
^^
which
men were more
forward
td
M.
AifTONi-
claim
a
ihare,
which
they
had
not,
than
to
us.
P.
Cor-
*'
diflemble that which
they
had
5
that Brutus's
NBLius
Do-
reafon
for
calling
ut
upon
him,
was to
fig-
'
**
nify,
that
he
was
then
emulating
his
praifes,
^'
by
an
aA,
not
unlike
to
what he
had
done
:
*'
that if
to
wifh
C far*s
death
was a
crime,
to
*^
rejoice
t
it
was
the
fame
;
there
being
n6
*'
difference
between
die
advifcr
and
the
appro-
*'
ver
;
yet
excepting
ntony
and
a
few
morty
**
who
were
fond
of
having
a
King,
that
there
was
not
a
man
in
Rome^
who
did
not
defire
to
fee the
faft
committed
-,
that
all
honeft
*'
men,
as
far
as
it
was
in their
power,
concurred
in
it
-,
that
fome
indeed
wanted
the
counlil,
fome
the
courage,
fome the
opportunity,
ut
none
the
will
to
do
it,
?f.
[y]**
The
news
of
this
furprifing
edt raifed
a
ge-eral
.
conilemation
through
the
City
;
fo
that
the
iirft
care
of
the
Confpirators
as
to
quiet
the
minds of
the
people,
by
proclaming
eace
and
liberty
o
all,
and
declaring,
hat
no
farther
violence
was
intended
to
any.
They
marched
out
therefore
in
a
body,
with
a
Capj
as
the
en-
ftgn
of
liberty
carried
before
hem
on
a
Spear[2]
5
and
[j] Ecquiseft
igitur,
ui
were
made
free;
whence
it
te
excepto,
Sc
lis,
qui
ilium
became tbi
Embitm
of
Hber*
regnare
gaudebant,qui
illud
tj
:
to
expofe
it
therefore
aut
fieri
noluerit,ut
fad^um
on
a
Spear,
was
a
public
in-
improbarit
omnes
cnim
in
vitation
to
the
people,
to
culpa.
Etenim
omnes boni,
embrace
the
liberty
hat
was
quantum
in
ipiis
uic,
Caefa-
offered
to
them
by
the
de-
rem
occiderunt.
A|iis
con-
flrudion
of
their
Tyrant,
filium,
aliis
animus,
occafio There
was
a
Medal like
wife
defuit
;
voluntas
nemui, c.
ftruck
on
this
occafion,
with
Phil.
2. 12.
the fame
device,
which is
[z]
A
Cap
was
always
gt-
flill
exUnt.
The
thought
ven
to
Slav$jf
when
they
however
was not
new ;
for
Satur*
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ofM.rULLIUS
CICERO.
7
and
in
a
calm
and
orderly
anner
preceded
A.
Urb
709.
through
die
Forum
5
where,
in
die
firft
heat
of
^^^/
joy
for
the
deaUi of
the
Tyrant,
fcveral
of
the
m.
Antoni-
young
Nobility,
who had bom
no
part
in
the
U3.
P.
Co**
confpiracy,
oined
themfelves
to
the
company
melius
Do*
with
fwords
in
their
hands,
out
of
an
ambition
^^***'*'^*
to
be
thought
partners
in
the
a t
^
but
they
paid
dear
afterwards
for that
vanity,
nd
without
any
(hare
of
the
glory,
were
involved in
the ruin
which
it
drew
upon
allthe
reft.
Brutus
dcfign-
cd
to
have
fpoken
o
the
Citizens
from
the
Ro-
Jira
;
but
perceiving
hem
to
be
in
too
great
an
agitation
o
attend
to
fpeeches,
nd
being
uncer-ain
what
way
the
popular
humor
might
turn,
and
knowing
that
there
were
great
numbers
of
Caefar's
oldfoldiers
n
the
City^
who
bad
heenfum-
manedfrom
all
parts
to
attend
him
to
the
Parthian
war^
he
thought
proper,
with
his
accomplices,
under
the
guard
ot
Decimu8*s
Gladiators,
o
take
rcfijge
n
the
Capitol[a].
Being
here
fecurcd
from
any
immediate
violence,
hefummoned
the
people
thither^in
the
afternoon
*,
and
in
a
fpeech
to
them,
which
he
had
prepared,juftified
is
ad,
and
expianed
the
motives
of
it,
and
in
a
pathetic
anner
exhorted
them
to
exert
them-elves
in
the
defence
of
their
country,
and
main-
tain
the
liberty
ow
offered
to
them,
againfl
ll
the abettors
ot
the
late
tyranny.
Cicero
prefent-
ly
followed
them
into the
Capitol,
ith
the
bcft
B
4
and
Saturninus,
in his
fcdition,
himfclf
ufed the
fame
expe-
wben
he
had
poicifed
Ilka- dfcntafternrarda
o
invite
the
UMoi
the
Capitol,
xalted
a
flavei
to
take
arms
with
him
Cap
alfo
K
thi
top
of
a
Spear
againft
ylla,
ho
was
march-
as a
token of liberty
to
all
the
ing
with
his
army
into
the
Slaves,
who
woula
join
with
City
to
attack
him.
Val.
htm
:
and
though
Marius,
In Max.
8.
S.
^
his
fitch
Oonfalfliip,
eftrov-
[a]
App.
2.
p. ^05.
Db.
d
him
for
that
aA,
by
a
it-
p.250.
Plat,
in
Csf.
Brut,
icrec
of
the
Senile^
yet
he
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^
History
of
the
Life
A-
Urb.
709.
and
greateft
art
of the
Senate,
to
deliberate
on
Cic.
6v
the
proper
means
of
improving
this
hopeful
e-
M.Antoni-
g^'^^^S*
and
eftablilhing
heir
Kbcrtygn
a
folid
vs.
P. Con-
and
lafting
oundation.
wELius
Do-
A
N T
o
N y
in
the
mean
while,
fhocked
by
LABfiLLA.
^g hardinefs
of
the
aft,
and
apprehending
omc
danger
to
his
own
life,
iripped
imfelf
f
bis
con--
Jular
rvhesj
and
fled
borne
in
difguife
where
be
began
to
fortify
is
boufcy
nd
keptbimfelf
lofe
ll
that
day
[^]
;
till
perceiving
he
pacific
onduft
of
the
confpirators,
e
recovered his
fpirits,
nd
appeared
again
the
next
morning
in
publick.
While
things
ere
in
this
fituation,
. Cor-elius
Cinna,
one
of
the
Praetors,
who
was
near-y
allied
to
Casfar,
made
a
fpeech
to
the
people
in
praife
f the
confpirators
extolling
heir
adt,
as
highly
meritorious,
and
exhorting
he
multi-ude
to
invite
them
down
from
the
Capitol,
nd
reward
them with the
honors
due
to
the deliver-rs
of
their
country
;
then
throwing
off
his
Pra^
torian
rohe^
he
declared,
that
he would
not
wear
it
any
longer,
s
being
bellowed
upon
him
by
a
tyrant
and
not
bytbe
laws. But the
next
day,
as
he
was
going
to
the
Senate,
ibme
of
Casfar's
Veteran
foldiers,
aving
gathered
mob of
the
fame
party,
attacked
him in
the
ftreets
with
yoUies
of
ftones,
and
drove
him
into
a
houfe,
which
they
were
goingprefendy
o
iet
on fire,
with
defign
o
have burnt him in
it,
if
Lepidus
had
not
come
to
his reicue with
a
body
of
re*
gular
troops
\j].
Lepidus
was
at
this
time
in
the
fuburbs
of
Rome
J
at
the
head of
an
army,
ready
o
depart
for
[^]
Qu tua
fa^?
quaeres
lia
fuga-^Iamtedomum
formido
prxdaro
illo
cue
?
JJrecepiftL
hil.
s.
35.
Vid.
qasepropterconrcientiamfce-ftDio.
.
259.
App.
502,503.
krum
defpentio
vitae
F^cniii^
r]
Plut.
in
Brot
App^
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TtlLLIUS
CICERO.
0
for the
government
of
Spain^
hich
had
been
A.
Urb.
709.
afligned
o
him
by
Caefar,
with
a
part
of
GauL
coffi
*
In
the
night
therefore,
fter
Csefar's
death,
he
m.Antoni-
filled
the
Forum with his.
troops,
and
finding
s.
P.
Cor*
himfelf
fuperior
o
any
man
in
power,
began
to
^^^^^^
I^ -
think
of
making
Umfelf
Mafterof
the
City,
and
' * '-'-^-
taking
mmediate
revenge
on
the
Confpirators
but
being
a
weak
and vain
man,
Antony
eafily^di-
verted him
firom
that
defign,
nd
managed
him
to
his
own
views
:
'^
He
reprefented
he
hazard
'^
and
diAicuIty
f the
attenipt,
while
the
Senate,
*^
the
City,
and
all
Italy
ere
againft
them
;
*'
that
the
only
way
to
efi5 fthat
they
wiflied,
**
was
to
difiemble
their
real
purpofe
to recom-
^^
mend
pacific
ounfils,
nd
lulltheir adverfa^
^'
ries
alleep,
ill
they
had
provided
ftrength
^^
fufficient
o
opprefs
hem
;
and
that,
as
foon
*'
as
things
ere
ripe,
he
would
join
with
him
*f
very
heartily
n
avenging
Csiar's
death.
With
chefe
remonftrances he
pacified
im
;
and
to
render
their
union the
firmer,
and
to
humor
his
vanity
at
the
fame
time,
gave
ins
Daughter
in
marriage
to
Lepidufs
Son,
and
affifted
im
to
feize
he
High
Priejihoody
acant
by
Cxfar's
death,
without
any
r^ard
to
the
ordinary
orms of
e-
leAion
[d]. Having
thus
gained
Lepidus
into
his
meafures,
he
made
ufe
of
his
authority
nd
his
forces,
to
harals
and
terrify
he
oppofite
ar-y,
till
he
had driven the
Confpirators
ut
ot
the
City
:
and when
he
had
ierved his
purpoies
ith
him
at
home,
contrived
to
(end him
to
his
go*
vemment,
to
keep
the
Provinces
and
the
Com-anders
abroad
in
proper
refped
to
them
;
and
that,
by fitting
own
with
his
army
in
the
nearefl:
part
of
Gaul,
he
might
be
ready
for
any
event,
which Ihould
require
is
help
in
Italy.
Tut
M
Dw-
P
^9f
^So
57*
^*
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lie
Hi%r
OKY
of
the
Life
A;
Urb.
709.
Th
e
Confpirators
n the
mean
while
had
for-
^^*
p'
mcd
no
fchcmc,
beyond
he
death
of
Caefar
;
but
M. Anton
I-
^^i^ed
to
be
as
much
furprized
nd amazed
at
u8.
P
Cor.
what
they
had
done,
as
the
reftof
the
City
:
KELius
Do-
they
truded
intirely
o
the
integrity
f
their
LABiLLA.
^^f^
.
fencying,
hat
it
would
be
fuiEcient
of
itfelf
o
efFe i:
ll
that
theyexpeded
from
it,
and
draw
an
univerlal
concurrence
to
the
defence
of
their
common
Liberty
and
taking
it
for
gran-ed,
that
Caefar's
fate,
in
the
height
of
allhis
greatnefs,
ould deter
any
of
his Partifans
from
aiming
at
the
fame
power
:
they
placed
withal
a
great
confidence in Cicero's
authority,
f
which
they
aflured
themfelves
as
their
own,
and
were
not
difappointed
for
from
this
moment
he
refol-
ved
at
alladventures
to
fupport
he
credit
of
the
men,
and their
a b,
as
the
onely
means
leftof
recovering
the
Republic.
He
knew,
that
the
people
were
all
on
their
fide
%
and,
as
long
as
.fofx:e
as
removed,
that
they
were
Matters
of
the
City
:
his advice
therefore
was,
to
ufe
their
prefent
dvantage,
and
in
the conftemadon
of
Caciar's
party,
and the zeal and
union of
dieir
own,
^f?tf/
rutus
^ziri
Caffius,
as
Prators^Jhould
^all
the
Senate intothe
Capitol^
nd
procedeofome
vigorous
ecrees^
or
the
fecurity
f
the
public
ran-uillity
[e].
But
Brutus
was
for
mardiing
calm-
ly,
and
with all
due
refpeit
o
the
authority
f
the
Conful
;
and
having
conceived
hopes
of
An^
tony,
propofed
the
fending
deputation
o
bim^
to
exhort
him
to
meafures
of
peace
:
Cicero
remon-
ftrated
againft
it;
nor
would
be
prevailed
with
to
bear
a
part
in
it
:
he told them
plainly,
*
*'
that
[i]
Mcmintfti
me
clanare,
fid
potneruBt,
l^tantibus
om-
illo
ipfo
primo
Capitolino
nibus
bonis,
etiam
fat
bonis,
die,
Senatum
in
Capicolium
fraAis
latronibus?
Ad
Att.
aPrstoribusvocari?
Diiim-
14.10.
mortalesi
q^ite
tm
opera
ef*
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LABILLA.
ofM.
tULLIVS
CICERO.
ii
**
that there
could
be
no
iafe
treaty
with
him
;
A.
Urb.
709,
*'
that
as
long
as
he
was
afraid of
them,
he
^q^^*
**
would
promife
every
thing
;
but,
when his
^^
antoni-
**
fears
were
over,
would
be
like
himfelf,
and
us.
P. Cor-
**
perform
nothing
fo
that
while
the
other
con-
f
^^
J^^*
^^
*'
fular
Senators
were
going
forwards
and
back-
''* '
*'
wards
in
this
officeof
mediation,
he
ftuckto
*'
his
point,
and
(laid
with
the
reft
in the
Ca-
^^
picol,
and
did
not
fee
Antony
for
the
two
firft
days
[/]/'
Th
I
event
confirmed what
Cicero
foretold
:
Antony
had
no
thoughts
f
peace
or
of
any
good
to
the
republic
his fble view
was,
to
feize
the
government
to
himfelf,
s
(oon
as
he
(hould
be
in
condition
to
do
it
i
and
then
on
pretence
of
revenging
Ca?far's
death,
to
deftroy
ll
thole^
who
were
likely
o
oppofe
him
: as
his
bufinefs
therefore
was,
to
gain
time
by
diflembling
nd
deceiving
he
Republican
arty
into
a
good
opi-ion
of him
i
lb
all his
anfwers
were
mild and
moderate;
profefling
fincere
inclinadon
to
peace,
and
no
other
defire,
than
to
fee
the Re-ublic
fettled
again
on
it's
old
bafis. Two
days
pafled
in
mutual
afliirances
from
both
fides,
^f
their
difpofition
o
concord and
amity;
and
Antony
fummoned
the Senate
on
the
third,
to
adjuft
he conditions
of
it,
and confirm
them
by
fome
folemn
aft. Here
Cicero,
as
the
bed
foun-ation
of
a
lafting
uiet,
moved the
aflfembly
a
the
firft
place,
after
the
example
of
Athens,
$0
^cree
a
general
amnefty^
r
d t
tf
oblivion^
or
all
that
was
pajfed
to
which
they
unanimoufly
-
greed.
[/]
Dicebam
illisIn Ca-
ac
timere defiifles,
imilem
te
pitolio
iberatoribus
noflrh,
futurum
tai.
Itaque
cum
cum
me
ad
te
ire
vellcnt,
ot
caeteri
Confulares
ircnt,
rc-
jul
defendendam
Rempab.
te
dirent,
in
fententia
manfi
:
adhortarer,
uoad
metaeres
neque
te
illo
die,
neque po-
iMmuatepromiffarum,
imol
ftero
vidi.Phii
2.
35.
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LAEBLLA.
ifi
Tie
History
of
the
Life
A.
Urb.
709-
greed.
Antony
feemed
to
be
all
goodneis
,
talk*
^c
ff^
cd
of
nothing,
but
healing
eafures;
and,
for
M.
ANTONt-
a
proof
of
his
fincerity,
oved,
tbaUhe
Conjpi-
vs.
p.
Cor-
rotors
JhouU
he
invited^
o
take
pari
in their
deli^
r^^lY
^^
^^^^^i^^^y
andfent
bis
Son
as
an
Hofiagefor
heir
fafety
upon
which
they
all
came
down
from
the
Capitol
iMid
Brutus
fupped
with
Lepidus
,
Caf*
fius
with
Antony
\
and
the
day
ended
to
the
uni-
veriaijoyoftheCity,
ho
imagined,
that
their
liberty
as
now
crowned
with
certain
peace
[^].
Th
ere
were
feveral
things
however
very
^tfullypropofed
nd
carried
by
Antony,
on
thie
pretence
of
public
concord,
of
which
he after-ards
nude
a
moft
pernicious
fe;
particularly,
^
decree
for
the
confirmation
f
all
Caefar's
a ts
:
this
motion
was
fufpefted
y
many,
who
ftuck
upon
itfor
fome
time,
and called
upon
Antony
to
explane
it,
and
fpeciiy
ow
far
it
was
to
ex-end
:
he
affured
them,
'*
that
no
other
afts
were
meant,
than
what
were
known
to
every
bo-
*
dy
;
and
entered
publicly
n
CaBfar*s
r^ifter
*'
theyaflced,
f
any
perfons
eretobereftored
^'
from
exil
*,
he
faid,
one
only
and
no xnort
:
*
whether
any
immunides
were
granted
o
Ci-
*
ties
or
Countries
:
he
anfwered,
none
;
and,
^*
coniemed,
that
it
Ihould
pafs
with
a
reftri i-
^'
on,
[?]
Ia
4^0
tempIo
quan-
ros
ejus
cum
pneftantiffim
turn
in
me
futt,
jeci
fanda-
civibus
confirmata
eft
.Phil*
menta
pacts,
Athenienfium-
i.
i.
qae
renovavi
vetus
exem-
Qaae
fait
oratio
de
concor-
p]um
:
graecom
etiam
verbum
dia
?
tuus
p^rvulus
iliiu
ia
ufarpavi,
^uo
turn
in
(edan-
Capitoliam
te
taiffns
pacts
dis
difcordiii
erat
Q(a
civitas
obies
fait.
Quo
SenaCus
die
ilia,
atc^oe
mnem
memoriam
laetior
?
quo
popolus
Roma*
difcordiaramoblivionefempi-
us?
turn
denique
liberati
ternadelendamcenfai.
Pne-
per
viros
fortif^ii| M
ideba-
clara
turn
oratio
M.
Antonii,
mar,
quia,
at
iili
vpluerant,
egregia
tiam
voluntas
:
pax
liberutem
pax
{qqnebatar.
denique
per
eum
per
hbe-
Ib.13.
iif^Plotir.
a
firot.*^
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TULLIUS
CICERO.
13
*
on,
propofed
by
Ser*
Sulpicius
that
no
A.
Urb.
709;
**
grant,
which
was
to
take
plaoe
fter
the
Ides
^Q\p.'
**
of
Marcbj
ihould
be
ratified
[b]:*'
this
was
m.
Antoni-
generallythought
{o
reafonable,
and
Antony's
us.
P. Con-
ieeming
candor
had made
fuch
an
impreflion,
b^-^vs
Do-
tlmt thofc
who
faw
the
mifchicf
of
it,
durft
not
*'^ *'-^^-
venture
to
oppofe
it
:
efpecially
s
there
was a
precedent
or
it
in
the
cafe
of
Sylla;
and
as
it
was
fuppofed
o
relate
chiefly
o
the
veteran
fol-
diers,
whom it
was not
poffible
o
oblige,
oc
keep
in
good
humor,
without
confirming
the
privileges
nd
pofleiBons,
hich
Casiar had
gran-ed
to
them.
But
Brutus
and
his
friends
had
private
eafons
for
entertaining
better
opinion
of
Antony,
than
his outward
conduft would
ju-
ftify
Caeiar
had
ufed
him
roughly
on
fev^
occafions
[i]
;
and
they
knew
his
refentment
of
it
;
and
that
be
had been
engaged
itb
Trebonius,
on
CaBlar*s
laft
eturn
from
Spain,
in
a
defign
-
gain^
bis
lifr
and tho
he did
not
perform
that
engagement
;
yet
they
thought
it
an
obligation^
as
well
as
a
proof
of his
continuing
n
the
fame
mind,
thai
be
bad
not
difcovef-ed
t
:
which
was
the
rcsSon
of
tbeir
faring
biniy
wben
Cxfar
was
killed^
nd
of
TreboniusV
taking
im
ajide^
n
pretence
of
bufinefs,
left his
behaviour
on
thac
occafion
niight
provoke
them
to
kill
him
too
[k].
But
{^3
Samnia conftantia ad
nos
Ser.
Sulpicio
olait,
ne
ea
qua:
qusefita
rant,
re-
qua
tabula
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fpondebat
nihil
tarn,
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avt
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com
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Tie
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of
tbe
Life
A.
Urb.
709-
U
T,
as
Cicero
often
laments,
they
had
aP
^Coff?
'^^y
ruined
their
caufe,
by givingAntony
lei-
M.
Am'Toni-
^ '^
^
rccoUeft
himfelf,
and
gather
troops
a-
wi,
P. Cor-
bout
him,
by
which
he
forced upon them feve-
MLius
Do-
ralother
decrees
againft
heir
will
;
one
of
them
LABiLirA.
jjj
j^^^j.
^
^^^
veteran
foldiers^
hom
he
had
drawn
up
for
that
purpofe
in
arms
about the
Senate
[/]
;
and another
ftili
worfe,
for
the
al-owanc
if
public
uneral
o
Cafar
;
wbicb At-
ticus
bad
been
remonft
atify
againft
oth
to
Cicero
and
Brutusj
as
pernicious
o
the
peace
of
tbe
City
but it
was
too
late
to
prevent
it
;
Antony
was
refolved
upon
it
;
and
had
provided
all
diinjg
for
it,
as
the
bcft
opportunity
f
inflaming
he
ibldiers
and
the
populace,
nd
raifing
ome
com-otions
to
the
difadvantage
f
the
Republican
caufe
;
in
which
he
fucceded fo
well,
that
Bru-us
and Caflius
had
no
fmall
difficulty
o
defend
tbeir
lives
and
boufesrom
tbe
violence
of
bis
mob
[m].
In
this
tumult,
Helvius
Cinna,
one
of
the
Tribuns,
and
a
particular
riendof
Cae ir,
was
torn
in
pieces
by
the rabble
;
bemg
miftaken
unluckily
or
the
Praetor
of
that
name,
who,
as
it
is iaid
above,
bad extolled
tbe
a^
of
killing
Cafar
in
a
fpeecbfrom
be
Roftra
this
to
alarm-d
all
thofe,
who
had
any
fimilitude of
name
with
any
of
the
Confpirators,
hat
Caius
Cafca,
another
Senator,
thought
fit
by
a
public
dver^
tifeniUnty
o
fignify
be
diftin^ion
f
bis
perfon
nd
principle
C. Trebonio
cepifie
otiffi-
nHun'
eft,
ob
ejni
onfilii
focietatem,am
mterficcre-
tar
Cafar,
turn te
a
Trebo-
aio
Tidimm
fevocari.
lb.
14.
[/]
Nonne
omni
ratione
^teraai,
qui
armati
ad^aat,
cum
pnefidii
o
nihil
babe-
icintt9
defewkndi foenmt?
.
Ad
Att.
14.
14.
[ r]
MeosiniAine
te
clamt-
re,
caafam
periiffe,
i fanere
elatui
effet
?
at
ille
etiam
In
foro
combuftus,
laudatafqtM
niferabiliter
; fervique
t-
gentet
in
teAa
noftra
cani
fiictbtts
aimifi.
Ad Att.
14*
10^
I4
Pluur,
in
Brot.
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^e
History
of
the
Life
A.
Urb.
709.
a
party
unarmed,
and
purfuing
acific
ounltls^
Cic
65.
and
placing
all their cruft
and
fecurity
n
the
M
AM-^Ni-
^^^
^f
^^ '
caufc.
Cicero
calls
it
a
Con/pi-
V9.
P. Cor-
^^y
of
Cafaf^sfreedmenp],
who
were
the
chief
Mv ivs
Do-
managers
of
the
tumult
:
in
which the
Jews
ieem
LABEt^LA.
iQ
jij^ygjjQrn
a
confiderable
part
5
who,
out
of
hatred
to
Pompey,
for his
aiSront
o
their
City
and
Temple,
were
zealoufly
ttached
to
Csefar,
and,
above all the
other
Foreigners
n
Rome^
diftinguifhed
hemfelves,
by
the
expreffions
f
their
grief
for
his
death
*,
fo
as
to
fpcnd
whole
nights
t
bis
monutnentj
in
a
kind
of
religious
e^
votion
to
bis
memory
[y],
Th
IS
firfttaft
of
Antony's
perfidy
as a
dear
warning
to
the
Confpirators,
hat
littlereaibn
they
had
to
depend
upon
him
-,
or
to
expedt
ny
iafety
n the
City,
where he had the foverein
command,
without
a
guard
for
their
defence
which,
though
D.
Brutus
demanded
for
them^
they
could
not
obtain
:
whilft
Antony,
to
alarm
them
dill
the
more,
took
care
to
letthem
know,
that
the
foldiers
nd
the
populace
ere
Jo
enraged,
that
he
did
not
think
it
pojjibleor
any
of
them
to
he
fafe
[r].
They
all
therefore
quitted
ome:
Trebonius ftole
away
privately
or
Afta,
to
take
pofiefiio
{f\
Nam ifta
quidem
liber-
ciTet
,
demonftrtvit
,
peffima
torum
Ceiaris
conjuratio
a-
fcHioet
iii ddifliim.
Nam
ciJe
opprimeretur,
i
redle
fa-
fe
neque
mihi
proviDciam
peret Antonius.
Ad
Att.
14* dare
poife
iebaty
neqae
ar-
5.
bitrariy
cuto
in
urbe
efle
[f]
In fummo
publico
u-
qaemquam
noftmm
,
adeo
Au
exteranim
gentium,
mul-
efle
militum concitatoi
ani
titudo
circulatim^
fao
quae-
mos
plebia.
Quorum
u-
que
more,
lamentata
eft,
prae-
trdmque
eflefalfum
puto
voe
cipuequeJudci,
qui
etiam
animadvertere
placicunx
iiodii ua
continuis buftum eft
mihi
poltulare,
t
liceret
freqoentarunt.Sueton.J.CaBr.
obis
efle
Romas
publico
84-
prsefidio
quod
illoi
nobis
[r]
Heri
apud
me
Hlrtius
concefluros
non
puto
Ep
fuiti
qua
mcnte
Antonius
ftm
zi
i*
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pofleflion
f that
prorince,
hich
had before
A.
Urb.
709*
been
aflSgned
o
him
;
being
afraid
of
being
pre-
Coff
'
vented
by
the
intrigues
f
Antony
:
D.
Brutus,
M.
ANToirt-
for
the
fame
reafon,
poflcfled
imfelf
of
/i ^
Ci/al'
s.
P.
Co -
pine
or
Italic
Gauly
which
had been conferred
^^'^s
Do*
upoh
Wm
likewife
by
Carfar,
inorder
to
ftrengdi-
^ *^*'^
en
himfelf
there
againft
ll
events,
and
by
his
neighbourhood
o
Rome^
to
encourage
and
pro-
teA
all
the
friends
of
liberty
M,
Brutus,
accom-
pani^
by
Odfius,
Hetired
to
one
of
his
villa^s
near
Lanuvium^
to
deliberateabout their future
conduft,
and
to
take
fuch
meafures,
as
the
acci-ents
of
the
times
and
the motions of
their
ene-^
mies (hould
make
neceflary.
Bu
T
as
ibon
as the
Confpirators
ere
gone,
Antrniy
refumed
his
Nbfk,
and
as
if
the
latevi-
-
olences
had
been
accidental
onely,
and the
fud-
den
tranfport
f
a
vile
mob,
profcfled
he lanic
moderation
as before,
and affeded
to
ipeak
with
the
grcateft
efpeft
f
Brutus
and
Camus
;
and
by
ieveral
ieafonable
adb,
propofed
y
him
to
the
Senate,
appeared
o
have
nothing
fo much
at
heart,
as
the
public
concord
:
among
other
decrees he offered
onej
which-
was
prepared
nd
drawn
up
by
himfelf,
o
dbolijhfor
ver
the
name
and
offiee
f
Diff^ton
this
ii^emed
to
be
a
fitf-e
pledge
f
his
g6od
intentions,
nd
gave
an
uni-
verfal
latisfeftion
o
the Senate
5
who
pafled
t,
as
it
were,
by
acclamation,
ithout
putting
it
even to
the
vote
;
and
decreed
the
thanks
of
the
houfe
for
it
to
Antony,
who,
as
Qcero
after-ards
told
him,
bad
fixed
n
indelible
nfamy
hy
it
M
Cafar^
in
declaring
o
the
worlds
that
for
the
odium
of
bis
government^
fuch
a
decree
was
^r-
come
botb
necejfary
nd
ppular
[j].
Vol.
III.
C Cicero
[i]
Didbturaniy
uae
vim
rat,
fundit^
e
Repob.
uibi*
jam
regis
potcAatis
bfede-
lit.
De
qua
ne
fententias
qttid m
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He
History
^
tbe
Lift
LABILLA.
A.Urb.
109.
Cicero alfo
left
Rome
foon
after
Brutus
and
^c
ff^
Caflius
[/],
not a
littlemortified
to
fee
things
M.
Anton
I-
^^
^^
wrong
a
turn,
by
the
bdolcncc
of
their
vs^
P.
Cor-
friends
;
which gave him
frequent
ccsifion
to
wcLius
Do-
lay,
that
the Ides
of
M^rdti
bad
produced
notbingy
which
pleafed
imj
but
ibefaSl
f
the
day
;
wbicb
was
executed
indeed
with
manly
vigor
but
fup-
ported
by
cbtldijh
ounftls
].
As he
pafTed
hro*
the
country,
he
found
nothing
but mirth and
rejoicing
n
all
the
great
Towns,
on
the
account
of Casfar's
death
:
^Mt is
impoflible
o
exprefs,
**
fays
he,
what
joy
there is
every
where
:
how
**
all
people
flock
about
me
:
how
greedy
they
^^
are
to
hear
an
account
of
it
from
me
:
yet
what
ftrange
politics
o
we
purfue
?
What
a
**
folecifm
do
we
commit?
To
be
afraid
of
^*
diofe,
whom
we
have
fubdued;
to
defend
^^
his
ads,
for
whole
death
we
rejoice
to
fuffer
**
Tyranny
to
live,
when
the
Tyrant
is
killed
;
*^
and the
Republic
o
be
loft,
when
our
liber-
ty
is recovered
[x]/*
Atticus
quidem
dlzisnus
'n
eiqae
amplijfliinis
erbii
per
S.
C.
gratias
egimiis
maxi-
mom
autem
illnd,
quod
Dh
.^tursB
nomen
mftulifti
luBc
innfta
eft
a
te
r
mor-
tuo
Caefari
nota
ad
ignomi
niam
fempiternam^
c. Phil.
I.
I.
13.
[/]Itaquecun
tenerimr-
bem
a
parricidis
iderem,nee
tein
ea,
nee
Cafiittm
tuto
efTe
pofTe,
eamqne
armis
oppref-
.
lam
ab
Antonio,
mihi
quoque
ipfi
efle
ezcedendttm
putavi.
Ad Brut.
15.
^
[ ]
Sed
tamen
adhuc
me
nihil
de1c bt
praeter
Idus
martias.
[Ad
Att.
14^
6,
21.
J
itaqoe
tnlta
jam
Idaum
mar-
tiammeftconfolatio. Animis
enim
ufi fomut
Tirilibut;
confiUtty
mihi
crede,
pueri-
libus.
lb.
1$.
4.
[x]
Dici
enim
noa
poteft
quantopere
gaodeant,
ut
ad
me
concurrant,
utaudirecn-
piant
-verba
mea
ea
de
ce...
fie
enim
mif^dlfuk^f
nt
viftoi
metueremaa
^nihil
enim
tam
mlKuxfiPf
quam
lu^fVKrifm
in
ccslo
efie,
Tyrtnni
fa^
defendi
-Ad
Att.
14.
6.
O Dii
boni
rivit
tyran-
nis,
tyrannut
occidit.
Ejus
interfe^i
orte
laetamur,
a-
jus
b z
defendimu
ib.9.
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19^
^
Atti
c u
$
fcnt
him
word
of
Ibmc
remarka-
A. Urb.
709.
ble
applaufe^
hich
was
given
to
the
famed
C(h
^'^
'
median^
Publius^
or
what
he
had
faid
upon
the
m.,Antori-
ftage^
n
iavor
of
the
public
libernr
and that
vs.
P. Con-
L,
Caffius,
he brother
of
the
Conpiratorj
hen
nilius
Do-m
of
the
TribunSy
vas
received
with
infinite
c^
^abix-x-a.
clanuuions
upon
bis
entrance
into
the
Theater
[j;]
which
convinced him
onely
the
more
of
the
mi-
flake of
their
friends
in
fitting
till,
nd
trufting
to
the
merit
of
their
caufe,
while
their
enemies
were
ufing
all
arts
to
deftroy
hem. This
ge-eral
inclination,
hich
declared
itfelf
fb
freely
on
the fide
of
liberty,
bliged
Antony
to
aft
with
caution,
nd
as
far
as
poflible,
o
perfuade
the
City,
hat
he
was on
the
fame
fide
too
:
for
which
end he
did
another
thing
at
this
time both
prudent
and
popular,
in
putting
o
death the
Impojior
arius^
who
was
now
returned
to
Rome^
to
revenge,
as
he
gave
out,
the
death
of
his
kinfinan
Casfar:
where
fignalizing
imfelf
at
the
head of
the
mob,
he
was
the
chief
Incen-
diary
t
the
Funeral,
and
the
fubfcquent
iots,
and
threatened
nothing
lefs
than
deftruSion
o
the
whole Senate
:
but
Antony,
having
ferved his
main
purpofe
ith
him,
of
driving
rutus
and
the
reft
out
of
the
City,
ordered
him
to
befeized
andftrangledy
nd
bis
body
to
be
draggedhrough
the
Streets
[z]
:
which
gave
him
n-elh
credit
with the
Republicans
fo that
Brutus,
tc^ether
widi
Caflius
and
other
friends,
ad
a
perfonal
conference
ith
him
about
this
time,
which
pat
fed
to
mutual
iatisfaftion
a].
C
2
By
ly]
Ex
prion
Thcatnun,
[z]
Uncnt
Inpidui
eft
Publinmqpe
ognovi,
bona
fugicivo
lli,
qat
C.
Marit
fignaconleiitieiitisniQltitadi-
omen
invaferat.
Ph3.
i.
2.
nil. Plaofos
vero,
L. Caflio
[ii]Aotoniicol]oqmumcam
datua
bcettii
mihiquidem
i- noftris
Heroibni
pro
re
nata
fus
eft.
^
Ad
Att.
14.
a.
on
incommodum.
Ad
Att.
Infinito
fratrit
tui
plaQfit
14.
6.
dimmpitiir.
p.fiuii.a.a.
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72^
History
of
the
Life
A.
Urb.
709.
B
Y
thefe
arts
Antony
hoped
to
amufe
the
^C
ff'
Confpirators,
nd
induce
them
to
lay
afide
all
M. Aston
I-
vigorous
ounfils
;
e(pecially,
hat
he
moft
ap-
vs.
p.
Cor-
prehended,
that of
leavingItaly
and
feizing
wELiui
Do-
fome
provinces
broad,
furniflied
with
troops
LABBLLA.
^^^
mottcy
;
which
might
put
them
into
a
con-ition
to
aft
offenfively
with the
fame
view
he
wrote
an
artfiil
Letter
to
Cicero,
to
defire his
conient
to
the
reftoration
of
S.
Clodius,
he
chief
agent
of
P.
Clodius,
who
had been
feveral
years
in
baniihment,
for
outrages
committed
in the
City
\ chiefly
g?iinft
icero
himfelf,
n
whofe
account
he
was
condemned.
Antony,
by
his
marriage
ith
Fulvia,
the
widow
of
P.
Clodius,
became
the
proteftor
f
all that
femily,
nd
the
Tutor of
young
Publius,
her
fori
;
which
g^ve
him
a
decent
pretence
of
interefting
imfelf in
this
afiair.
He
aflfures
Cicero,
*'
that he had
**
procured
a
pardon
for
S.
Clodius
from
Cae-
'^
lar
\
but
did
not
intend
to
have
made ufe
of
'^
it,
till
he had
obtained
his
conient
;
and
thxf
^'
he
thought
himfelf
now
obliged
o
fupport
*
all
Caelar's
afts
5
yet
1^ would
not
infift
on
**
this
agsunft
is
leave
that
it
would be
*^
an
obligation
o
young
Publius,a
youth
of
the
greateft
opes,
o
lethim
fee,
that
Cicero
^^
did
not
extend his
revenge
to
his Father's
*'
friends
permit
me,
lays
he,
to
inftill
*
thefe
fentiments
into
the
boy
;
and
to
pcr-
^^
fuade his tender
mind,
that
quarrels
re not
*^
to
be
perpetuated
n
families
:
and
tho'
your
'*
condition,
I
know,
is
fuperipr
o
all
danger
;
*
yet
you
would
chufc,
I
fency,
o
enjoy
quiet
^^
and
honorable,
rather
than
a
turbulent
old
**
age
laftly,
have
a
fort
of
right
o
afk this
**
favor
of
you
;
fince
I
never
refuied
any
thing
to
you
:
if
I
do
not
however
prevail
ith
I
**
you
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**
you,
I
will
not
grant
it
to
Clodius
;
that
you
A.
Urb.
709.
may
fee
how
great
your
authority
s
with
me
:
q^q'
(hew
yourfelf
he
more
placable
n
that
ac-
m.
Antoni-
count
[h]r
us.
P.
Cor.
Cicero
never
hefitated
about
giving
his
f^J;^y*
^'
confent,
to
what
Antony
could
and would
have
' ** *
'^
d$ne
witboui
it
:
the
thing
itfelf,
e
knew,
was
^^
fcandalous
;
and
the
pardon
faid
to
be
grant*
'
ed
by
C far,
a
forgery
and that
Caefar
**
would
never
have
done
it,
or
fuffered
it
to
be
'^
done;
and
ib
many
forgeries
f
that
kind
be-
**
gan
to
be
publiflied
very
day
from
Caefar*s
'^
books,
that he
was
almoit
tempted,
he
fays,
to
wifli
for
Casfar
again
[r].
He
anfwered
him
however
with
great
civility
,
and in
a
ftrain
of
complaiiance
which
correfponded
ut
little
with his real
opinion
of
the
man
:
but
Antony's
public
behaviour
had
merited
fbme
compli*
ments
:
and
under the
prefent
tate
of
his
pow-r,
and
the
uncertain
condition
of
their
own
party,
Cicero
refolved
to
obferve
all the
forms
of
an
old
acquaintance
ith
him
;
till
by
fome
wert
a l
againji
he
publicintcrefij
e
Jbould
be
forced
o
confider
im
as
an
enemy
\d].
C
3
Antony
.
[hi
Ad
Att.
14.
after
Let-
Antonto
facilHmum
me
pr
tertheigtlu
bai. Etenim
ilk,
qaoniam
[r]
Antonias
ad
me
fcrip-
femel
indaxit
in
animum
(ibi
fit
dt
reftitutione
S.
Clodii: licere
quod
vellet,
feciiTetni-
^am
horiorifice
quod
ad
me
hilo
minos
me
invito.
Ad
attinet,
ezipfius
itteriscog-
tt.
14.
19.
Bofces
quam Ufrolate,quam
[/\
Ego
tamen
Antonii
in*
turpitur,
quamque
ita
perni-
veteratam
fine
ulla
oflfenfione
eiofe,
ot
nonnunquam
etiam
araicitiam
retinere
fane
volo.
Csefar
defiderandiu
efTe
vide-
Ep.
fam.
1
6.
2
3
.
atur,
facile
eziftimabis
:
quae
Cui
quidem
ego
(emper
enim
Caefar
nunouam
neque
amicus
fai
antequam
i]lum
feciiTet^
eque
pa ua
tSkt,
ea
intellext
non
modo
apeite,
UBC ex
falfis
ejus
commen-
fedeciamlibentercumRjepabw
tarlis
profcruntor.
goautem
bellum
gerere.
Ib.
zi.
5.
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Tie
History
^
tie
Life
K
Urb.
709.
An
tony
made
him
but
a
cold
rq)Iy
,
ha-
^Coff
^ 8
h^^'d
perhaps,
n
the
mean
time,
of
fomc-
M.
Antoni-
thing
which
did
not
pleafe
im
in his
condud.
vs.
P. Cor-
He
told him
onely,
that bis
eafinefs
nd
ckmency
*iBiiu
Do-
^cff
azreeahU
to
btm^
and
tnigbihereafter
e
a
p^eat
pleafure
o
bimfelfe].
Cleopatra,
the
^een
of
Egy^^tj
asin
Rome
when
Cafar
was
killed
;
but
being
terri-ied
by
that
accident,
and
the
fubfequent
ifor-
ders
of
the
City,
(he
ran
away
prefently
ith
great
precipitation.
er
authority
nd
credit
with
Casfar,
in
whofe
houle
fhe
was
lodged
made
her
infolence intolerable
to
the Romans
\
whom
fhe
feems
to
have
treated
on
the
lame
foot with
her
own
Egyptians
as
the
fubjefts
f
ablblute
power,
and the
flaves
of
a
Mafter,
whom
fhe commanded. Cicero bad
a
conference
ith
her
in
Cafafs
gardens
where
the
baughtinefs
f
her behaviour
gave
him
nofmall
offence.
now-ng
his taft
and
character,
he
made
him the
promife
f
fome
prefent,
ery
agreeable,
ut
dif-
obliged
im
the
more
by
not
performing
t
:
he
does
not
tell
us
what
it
was
;
but
from
the
hints
which he
drops,
it
feems
to
have been
Jlatues
r
curiojities
rom
Egypt,
for
the
ornament
of
Us
Library
a
fort
of
furniture,
hich he
was
pe-uliarl
fond
of.
But her
pride
being
mortined
by
Ca^far's
fate,
fhe
was now
forced
to
apply
to
him
by
her Minifters
for
his
affiftancein
a
par-icular
fuit,
that fhe
was
recommending
to
the
Senate,
in
which he
refiifed
to
be
concerned,
.
The
aifFair
eems
to
have
related
to
her
Infant
Son^
whom
fhe
pretended
o
be
Casfar's,
nd
called
by
his
name
\
and
was
laboring
o
get
him
{i]
Antonlos
ad
me
tantnm
fibiefle
gratam,
mihi
mag*
de
Clodio
refcripfit,
eam
n
voluputi
ore.
AA
ktU
leoitatem
dementiam U
14.
19*
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^History
of
the
Life
A.
Urb.
709.
my
charafler
i
fo that
I
ftiould
not
fcruple
^C P'
*'
^^
proclame
them
from the Roftra.
Her
M.Antoni-
other
Agent,
Sara,
is
not
onely
a
rafcal,
ut
us.
P. Cor-
has
been
rude
to me.
I
never
faw him
at
my
KELius
Do-
Houfe but
once
5
and
when
I afked
him ci-
LABBLLA.
*
^jjjy^
j^^^
commands he had
for
me,
he
laid,
**
that*
he
came
to
look
for
Atticus.
As
to
the
pride
of
the
Queen,
when
I
faw
her
in
the
*'
Gardens,
lean
never
think of
it
without
re-
fentment:
1
will
have
nothing
therefore
to
**
do
with
them
:
they
take
me
to
have
neither
**
fpirit,
or
even
feeling
eft
[b]
AntoKy
haying
put
his affairs
into
thebeft
train
that
he
could,
and
appointed
the
firft
of
June
for
a
meeting
of
the
Senate,
in
order
to
deliberate
on
the
ftate
of
the
Republic,
ook
the
opportunity
f that interval
to
make
a
progrefs
thro*
Italyy
or
the
fake
of
vifiting
he
quarters
of the
veteran foldiers,
nd
engaging
them
to
his
fervice,
by
allfortsof
bribes
and
promifes.
He
leftthe
government
of the
City
to
Dolabel-
la,
whom
Csefar,
upon
his
intended
expedition
to
Partbiay
had
defigned
nd nominated
to
the
Confullhip
and
thoughAntony
had
protefted
againfl
that
delignation,
nd
refolved
to
ob -
ilruft
its
effeft,
et
after Ca^far's
death,
when
Dolabella,
fnolefla
^
Retinae
liiga
ihi
non eum
omnino
domi
mes
vidL
lefti.
[Ad
Att.
14.
8.3
de Cum
^i\offJftH
x eo
quae-
Regma
v^lim,
atque
etiam
de
rerem,
quid
opus
efiet,
tti
Caefare
illo.
[ib.
20.]
R^ffj-
am
fe
dixit
quaerere.
Su-
nam
odi.
Me
jure
facere (cit
perbiam
autem
ipfiusRegins,
fponfor
promiflbnim
ejus
cum
clTct
trans
Tibcrim in
Ammonius
}
quas
quidem
e-
hortis,
commemorare
fine
rant
^/AaAoyx,
Sc
dignitatis
agno
dolore
non
poflum.
meae,
ut
vel
in
condone di^
Nihil
igitur
um
ifils
nee
cere
auderegi,
Saram
autem
tarn
animura
me,
quam
vu;
paeterquam
quod
nefarium
ftomach^m
habere
^bitn^I^
nominem
cognovi,
praetcrca
tur.
K).
15. 15,
ijim9
9ontumaccm
Sexnel
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Dolabella,
by
the
advantage
f
the
general
on-
A.
Urb.
709,
fufion,
feized
he
enfigns
f
the
office^
nd
ajfumed
^J^
^'
the
hahit.and
charaSer
of
the
ConfuU
Antonyqui-
m.
Astoki.
etly
eceived^
nd
acknowledged
im
as
fucb
at
the
us.
P..Cor-
next
meeting
of
the Senate
[i
].
nelius
Do-
Cicero
had
always
kept
up
a
fair
corre-
^^*^^^^*
fpondence
ith
his
ion
in
law,
tho'
he
had
long
known
him
to
be
void
of
all
virtue
and
good
principles
but he had
now
greater
reafon
than
ever
for
infinua