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| Byllis, and to drive Brutus men from thence, that had taken | MARCUS |
| it before: and therefore to obtayne his purpose, he fought a | BRUTUS |
| battell with Cicero, the sonne of Marcus Tullius Cicero, by | |
| whome he was overcome. For Brutus made the younger | |
| Cicero a Captaine, and did many notable exploytes by his | |
| service. Shortly after, having stolen upon Caius Antonius | |
| in certein marishes farre from the place from whence he fled: | |
| he would not set on him with furie, but onely road round | |
| about him, commaunding his souldiers to spare him and his | |
| men, as reckoning them all his own without stroke striking: | |
| and so in deede it hapned. For they yelded them selves, | C. Antonius |
| and their Captaine Antonius, unto Brutus: so that Brutus | yelded unto |
| had now a great army about him. Now Brutus kept this | Brutus. |
| Caius Antonius long time in his office, and never tooke from | |
| him the markes and signes of his Consulship, although | |
| many of his friends, and Cicero among others, wrote unto | |
| him to put him to death. But when he sawe Antonius | |
| secretly practised with his Captaines to make some altera- | |
| cion: then he sent him into a shippe, and made him to be | |
| kept there. When the souldiers whome C. Antonius had | |
| corrupted, were gotten into the citie of Apollonia, and | |
| sent from thence unto Brutus to come unto them: he made them | |
| aunswer, that it was not the manner of Romane Captaines | |
| to come to the souldiers, but the souldiers to come to the | |
| Captaine, and to crave pardon for their offences committed. | |
| Thereuppon they came to him, and he pardoned them. So | |
| Brutus preparing to goe into Asia, newes came unto him of | |
| the great chaunge at Rome. For Octavius Caesar was in | |
| armes, by commaundement, and authoritie from the Senate, | |
| against Marcus Antonius. But after that he had driven | |
| Antonius out of Italy, the Senate then began to be affrayd | |
| of him: bicause he sued to be Consul, which was contrary | |
| to the law, and kept a great army about him, when the | |
| Empire of Rome had no neede of them. On the other side, | Octavius |
| Octavius Caesar perceiving the Senate stayed not there, but | Caesar joyn- |
| turned unto Brutus that was out of Italy, and that they | eth with |
| appoynted him the government of certaine provinces: then | Antonius |
| he began to be affrayd for his part, and sent unto Antonius | |
| to offer him his friendship. Then comming on with his | |
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