England. The selections here given are printed with the
original punctuation, etc., preserved as specimens of the style of the
period.]

[Footnote 94: This and the province of Cilicia lay in the eastern part
of Asia Minor.]

[Footnote 95: Antipater was a general of Macedonia under Philip and
Alexander the Great and became Regent in 334.]

II

THE ASSASSINATION OF CAESAR[96]

(44 B.C.)

But Brutus in many other things tasted of the benefit of Caesar's favor
in anything he requested.[97] For if he had listed, he might have been
one of Caesar's chiefest friends, and of greater authority and credit
about him. Howbeit Cassius' friends did dissuade him from it[98] (for
Cassius and he were not yet reconciled together sithence their first
contention and strife for the Praetorship), and prayed him to beware of
Caesar's sweet enticements, and to fly his tyrannical favors: the which
they said Caesar gave him, not to honor his virtue, but to weaken his
constant mind, framing it to the bent of his bow. Now Caesar on the
other side did not trust him overmuch, nor was not without tales
brought unto him against him: howbeit he feared his great mind,
authority, and friends. Yet on the other side also, he trusted his
good-nature, and fair conditions. For, intelligence being brought him
one day, that Mark Antony and Dolabella did conspire against him: he
answered, That these fat long-haired men made him not afraid, but the
lean and whitely-faced fellows, meaning that, by Brutus and Cassius.

At another time also when one accused Brutus unto him, and bade him
beware of him: What, said he again, clapping his hand on his breast:
think ye that Brutus will not tarry till this body die? Meaning that
none but Brutus after him was meet to have such power as he had. And
surely, in my opinion, I am persuaded that Brutus might indeed have
come to have been the chiefest man of Rome, if he could have contented
himself for a time to have been next unto Caesar, and to have suffered
his glory and authority which he had gotten by his great victories, to
consume with time. But Cassius being a choleric man, and hating Caesar
privately, more than he did the tyranny openly: he incensed Brutus
against him....

But for Brutus, his friends and countrymen, both by divers
procurements, and sundry rumours of the city, and by many bills also,
did openly call and procure him to do that he did. For, under the
image of his ancestor Junius Brutus, tha