| GRECIANS AND ROMANS | |
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| saying, that whether he waked or slept, he found him of a | MARCUS |
| noble mind and disposition, he did in nature so much hate | BRUTUS |
| tyrannes. Shortly after, he began to enter openly into | Brutus pre- |
| armes: and being advertised that there came out of Asia | pareth him |
| a certaine fleete of Romane ships that had good store of | selfe to warre. |
| money in them, and that the Captaine of those shippes (who | |
| was an honest man, and his famillier friende) came towards | |
| Athens: he went to meete him as farre as the Ile of Carys- | |
| tos, and having spoken with him there, he handled him so, | |
| that he was contented to leave his shippes in his hands. | |
| Whereuppon he made him a notable banket at his house, | |
| bicause it was on his birth day. When the feast day came, | |
| and that they began to drinke lustely one to another: the | |
| ghests dranke to the victorie of Brutus, and the libertie of | |
| the Romanes. Brutus therefore to encorage them further, | |
| called for a bigger cuppe, and holding it in his hand, before | |
| he dranke spake this alowd: | |
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| My destiny and Phoebus are agreede, | |
| To bring me to my finall end with speede. | |
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| And for proofe hereof, it is reported, that the same day | |
| he fought his last battell by the citie of Philippes, as he | |
| came out of his tent, he gave his men for the word and | |
| signall of battell, Phoebus: so that it was thought ever | |
| since, that this his sodaine crying out at the feast, was a | |
| prognostication of his misfortune that should happen. After | |
| this, Antistius gave him of the money he caried into Italy, | |
| 50 Myriades. Furthermore, all Pompeys souldiers that | |
| stragled up and downe Thessaly, came with very good will | |
| unto him. He tooke from Cinna also, five hundred horse- | |
| men, which he caried into Asia, unto Dolabella. After | |
| that, he went by sea unto the city of Demetriade, and there | |
| tooke a great deale of armor and munition which was going | |
| to Antonius: and the which had bene made and forged | |
| there by Iulius Caesars commaundement, for the warres | |
| against the Parthians. Furthermore, Hortensius governor | |
| of Macedon, did resigne the government thereof unto him. | |
| Besides, all the Princes, kings and noble men thereabouts, | |
| came and joyned with him, when it was told him that Caius, | |
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