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- ...M. Lepidus.
- ...L. Plancus.
CAssiodorus and the Sicilian records put downe for Consuls, M. Lepidus & L. Plan∣tus. Dio, M. Aemylius Lepidus the second time, and Lu. Munatius, sonne of Lucius, surnamed Plancus. Of these Consuls Suetonius speaketh in Tiberius, saying, That Tiberius was borne af∣ter the battell of Philippi, when Mar. Aemylius Lepidus was the second time Consull with Mu∣natius Plancus. Now had there been before ap∣pointed Consuls against this yeere by Caesar, D. Brutus and Lu. Plancus. But by reason that Brutus the yeere before was by the law Pedia condemned and after killed, and so the three Triumvirs usurped the rule of the common∣weale; agreed it was, that M. Lepidus one of the Triumvirs who beforetime also had been Con∣sull with Caesar in his third Consulship, should together with Plancus, (who also taking part and siding with Antonie, had revolted from the Commonweale) administer the Consu∣late. Moreover, this Brutus was by Plutarch, Appian, Dio, and Zonaras, called also Albinus; I suppose, for that out of the race of the Bruti he was adopted and incorporat into the house of the Albini. In this yeere, during the civile war, Brutus and Cassius were slaine in battell be∣fore Philippi, as Dio, Plutarch, Appian, and o∣thers write.