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| both. Their meeting was by the citie of Bolonia, where | CICERO |
| they continued three dayes together, they three only secretly | |
| consulting in a place environned about with a litle river. | |
| Some say that Caesar stuck hard with Cicero the two first | |
| dayes, but at the third, that he yeelded and forsooke him. | |
| The exchaunge they agreed upon betwene them, was this. | |
| Caesar forsooke Cicero: Lepidus, his owne brother Paulus: | Cicero ap- |
| and Antonius, Lucius Caesar, his uncle by the mothers side. | pointed to |
| Such place tooke wrath in them, as they regarded no kinred | be slaine. |
| nor blood, and to speake more properly, they shewed that | |
| no brute or savage beast is so cruell as man, if with his | |
| licentiousnes he have liberty to execute his will. While | |
| these matters were a brewing, Cicero was at a house of his | |
| in the contrie, by the city of Thusculum, having at home | |
| with him also his brother Quintus Cicero. Newes being | |
| brought them thither of these proscriptions or outlawries, | |
| appointing men to be slaine: they determined to goe to | |
| Astyra, a place by the sea side where Cicero had an other | |
| house, there to take sea, and from thence to goe into Mace- | |
| don unto Brutus. For there ran a rumor that Brutus | |
| was verie strong, and had a great power. So, they caused | |
| them selves to be conveyed thither in two litters, both of | |
| them being so weake with sorow and griefe, that they could | |
| not otherwise have gone their wayes. As they were on their | |
| waye, both their litters going as neere to ech other as they | |
| could, they bewailed their miserable estate: but Quintus | |
| chiefly, who tooke it most grievously. For, remembring | |
| that be tooke no money with him when he came from his | |
| house, and that Cicero his brother also had verie litle for | |
| him selfe: he thought it best that Cicero shoulde holde on | |
| his jorney, whilest he him selfe made an arrant home to | |
| fetche suche thinges as he lacked, and so to make hast | |
| againe to overtake his brother. They both thought it best | |
| so, and then tenderly imbracing one an other, the teares | |
| falling from their eyes, they tooke leave of ech other. Within | |
| few dayes after, Quintus Cicero being betrayed by his owne | |
| servaunts, unto them that made search for him: he was | |
| cruelly slaine, and his sonne with him. But Marcus Tullius | Quintus |
| Cicero being caried unto Astyra, and there finding a shippe | Cicero slaine. |
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