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Cicero to Decimus Brutus Impe∣rator. Epist. 7.

LVpus hauing call'd together mee, Libo, and Seruius your cozen, at my house; what my opinion was, I think you haue vnderstood from C••eius Seius, who was present at that consu••ta∣tion. The rest, though Graeceius came a while after Seius: n••uerthelesse, from Grae••eius you may vnderstand it. But the sum is this; which I would haue you well to note, and keepe in minde: That in preseruing the freedome, and safetie of the people of Rome, you should not attend vpon the autho∣ritie of the Senate, not yet at liberty. (For, this were a controlling, and reuo∣cation of what you haue done: for, if you ••hould reduce the Common-wealth to liberty, this you had done by no publique counsell, but of your selfe: and therfore 'twas your greater praise.) and you should inferre, that young (or rather the childe) Caesar did foolishly, to embrace so publique a businesse vpon his priuate counsell. Finally, you should make shew, that first you held all the olde souldiers, your war-associates, for fooles; rus••icall men; but valiant per∣sons, and excellent Citizens: as also the Martian, and fourth Legion, who

denounced their Consull, Rebell; and reuolted, to de••end the safety of the Common-wealth. The will of the Se∣nate must bee held for authority, when authority is by feare hindered. Last of all, you haue now twice taken the en∣terprise vpon your selfe: Wherefore, you must sticke to what you haue done, First, the thirteenth of March; and then againe lately; because you assembled a new Armie, and new forces. And ther∣fore you must be so prepared, and pro∣uided for euerie thing, that you stand not vpon commission, in performance of euerie seruice: but, that you effect those matters, that may with wonder∣full admiration, of euerie man, haue al∣lowance. Farewell.