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There fell on his side eight thousand men, including the camp servants whom Brutus called Briges;1 but the enemy, in the opinion of Messala, lost more than twice as many. They were therefore the more dejected of the two, until an attendant of Cassius, named Demetrius, came to Antony in the evening, bringing the robes and the sword which he had taken at once from the dead body.

1 The name of a Thracian tribe (Herodotus, vii. 73).

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