![]() On this rumour, Antony, making capital out of the plot, and using his consular authority, arrested Amatius and boldly put him to death without a trial. But being still city praetors, they 1 necessarily, and in their official capacity they conciliated the colonists by various decrees, and among others by one enabling them to sell their allotments, the law hitherto forbidding the alienation of the land till the end of twenty years.ģ 1 It was said that Amatius was only waiting an opportunity to entrap Brutus and Cassius. Cassius and Marcus Brutus, who were the special favourites of the Senate, had also been chosen by Caesar as governors for the following year, the former of Syria, and the latter of Macedonia. P521 provinces from Caesar himself had gone away to take charge of the same, Decimus Brutus to Cisalpine Gaul, Trebonius to Western Asia Minor, and Tillius Cimber to Bithynia. Some of these had fled from the city, and those who had accepted the command of He collected a band of reckless men and made º himself a perpetual terror to the murderers. ![]() Being, according to this pretence, a relative of Caesar, he was pained beyond measure by the latter's death, and erected an altar on the site of his funeral pyre. He pretended to be a grandson of Marius, and for this reason was very popular with the masses. There was a certain pseudo-Marius in Rome named Amatius. But he changed it from bad to good feeling toward himself by one capital stroke of policy. How the most distinguished of them were punished this book and the next one will show, and the other civil wars waged by the Romans will likewise be included in them.Ģ 1 The Senate blamed Antony for his funeral oration over Caesar, by which, chiefly, the people were incited to disregard the decree of amnesty lately passed, and to scour the city in order to fire the houses of the murderers. ![]() All of his murderers were brought to punishment. P519 1 1 Thus was Gaius Caesar, who had been foremost in extending the Roman sway, slain by his enemies and buried by the people.
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