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For the incredible and godlike virtue of Caesar checked the cruel and frantic
onslaught of that robber, whom then that madman believed that he was injuring
with his edicts, ignorant that all the charges which he was falsely alleging
against that most righteous young man, were all very appropriate to the
recollections of his own childhood. He entered the city, with what an escort, or
rather with what a troop! when on the right hand and on the left, amid the
groans of the Roman people, he was threatening the owners of property, taking
notes of the houses, and openly promising to divide the city among his
followers. He returned to his soldiers; then came that mischievous assembly at
Tibur. From thence he hurried to
the city; the senate was convened at the Capitol. A decree with the authority of
the consuls was prepared for proscribing the young man; when all on a sudden
(for he was aware that the Martial legion had encamped at Alba) news is brought
him of the proceedings of the fourth legion.
Alarmed at that, he abandoned his intention of submitting a motion to the senate
respecting Caesar. He departed not by the regular roads, but by the by-lanes, in
the robe of a general; and on that very self-same day he trumped up a countless
number of resolutions of the senate; all of which he published even before they
were drawn up.
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