Etenim omnes boni quantum in ipsis
fuit Caesarem occiderunt. Aliis consilium, aliis animus, aliis occasio
defuit. Voluntas nemini."--_2nd Philippic_, 12.
[17] Dion Cassius.
[18] So Dion Cassius states, on what authority we know not. Suetonius says
that as Caesar was returning from the Latin festival some one placed a
laurel crown on the statue, tied with a white riband.
[19] The fact is certain. Cicero taunted Antony with it in the Senate, in
the Second Philippic.
[20] "Cum ad rem publicam liberandam accessi, HS. mihi fuit
quadringenties amplius."--_Decimus Brutus to Cicero,
Ad Fam_. xi. 10.
[21] "Vellem Idibus Martiis me ad coenam invitasses. Reliquiarum nihil
fuisset."--_Ad Cassium, Ad Fam_. xii. 4. And again: "Quam vellem
ad illas pulcherrimas epulas me Idibus Martiis invitasses! Reliquiarum
nihil haberemus."--_Ad Trebonium, Ad Fam_. x. 28.
[22] Dion Cassius, _C. Julius Caesar_, xliv. 17.
[23] "Spreta religione."--Suetonius.
[24] Not perhaps Caius Cassius, but another. Suetonius says "alter e
Cassiis."
[25] So says Suetonius, the best extant authority, who refers to the
famous words addressed to Brutus only as a legend: "Atque ita tribus
et viginti plagis confossus est, uno modo ad primum ictum gemitu sine
voce edito.
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