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- ...C. Caesar.
- ...M. Antonius.
DIo setteth downe for this yere, Caesar Di∣ctator the fift time, together with M. Ae∣mylius Lep••dus maister of the horsemen. But the capitoll tables avouch him Dictatour now the fourth time. Dio & Appian write that hee created himselfe Consull together with M. Antonius. Likewise Cassiodorus and the Sicilian registers give record, that Caesar was this yeere Consull the fift time, together with M. Antonius. And Macrobius in his first booke speaketh of them. Moreover, written it is in the Capitoll and Colotian tables, that C. Caesar was Consull the fift time, with M. Antonius son of M: & that in the roum of Caesar there was cho∣sen P. Cornelius son of Publius. And this was P. Cornelius Dolabella, whom Caesar himselfe (if hee had lived) meant to have substituted in his owne rowm. Plutarch writeth, that Caesar Cos. now the fift time, tooke unto him for his com∣panion in government M. Antonius. And when as he would have subordeined Dolabella in his owne stead, Antonie gainesaid it in an oration: and afterwards, when Caesar a second time would have had Dolabella to be declared Consul, and still Antonie crossed and withstood it, Caesar gave over his enterprise. But after Caesar was mur∣dered, Antonie (as Dio writeth) fearing some insurrection and commotion if he should have rejected Dolabella, tooke him into the fellow∣ship of government. Appian saith, that imme∣diately after Caesar was killed, Dolabella entred into the magistracie. So saieth Velleius also. And this verily was the yere, in which the con∣spiracie was contrived against Caesar, whereof the chieftaines were M. & Decimus both Bruti, C. Trebonius and C. Cassius: and upon the fif∣teenth day of March, when hee sat in counsell together with the Senate in the court of Pom∣peie, he was stabbed, and received in his bodie three & twentie wounds: which done, the mur∣derers who had wrought the feat seized the ca∣pitoll. And C. Octavius his nephew or sisters sonne, whome Caesar had made in his will his halfe-heire, and adopted to beare his owne name, came out of Epitus, whither Caesar had