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Cicero to Caius Cassius. Epist. 3.

YOur friend doth euerie day more then other, shew his m••dnesse ••nd bestialitie. First, in the Statua, that h••

erected in the Rostra, he hath in grauen these words. TO OVR BEST DESERVING PARENT. So that men thinke, th••t you haue not onely committed homicide; but that you haue betrayed your Countrey. Why doe I say, you? I should say, wee: for that furious fellow affirmes, that I was the Ring••leader of that your no∣table seruice. I would I had beene: he should not now haue thus molested vs. But this concern••d you. Which, seeing it happened not. I would to God I had counsell to giue you. But yet I doe not see, what I should doe my selfe; and what can bee attempted against force, without force? And all their designe is this, of Caesar. Whereupon he, being by Canu••ius, conducted to speake vnto the people, the second day of October: in veri•• truth departed disgracefully. But yet he vttered [••uch] things of you, who haue preserued your Countrey, as should h••ue beene deliuered of one, that had betrayed it. Of my selfe hee spake this; that hee was most assured, that, as you heretofore; so now, Canu∣••ius did all things by my directions. The rest, how it is, iudge by this; that they haue t••ken away the prouision ••rom your Legate, which is vsually al∣••owed, for his iourney. What is their meaning, thi••ke you, in doing this? Vn∣••oubtedly, that he is the Legat, not of a

friend, but of an enemie to the Com∣mon-wealth. Oh wonderfull miserie! We could not support the Master: and now we serue our fellow-se••uant. And yet, for all this, (though I desire more then I can hope for) there still remaines some hope in your valour. But where are the men? I conceale the rest: and leaue it to your selfe to bee considered. Farewell.