Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Englished by Sir Thomas North. Trans. Sir Thomas North. Vol. 6 (1579; London: David Nutt, 1896) 206.

LIVES OF THE NOBLE 
 
MARCUS    (Antonius brother) coming out of Italy, had passed the sea, 
BRUTUS    and came with great speede towards the citie of Dyrrachium, 
    and Apollonia, to get the souldiers into his hands, which 
    Gabinius had there. Brutus therefore to prevent him, went 
    presently with a fewe of his men in the middest of winter 
    when it snewe hard, and tooke his way thorough hard and 
    fowle contries, and made such speede in deede, that he was 
    there long before Antonius sumpters, that caried the vittells. 
A straunge    So that when he came neare unto Dyrrachium, a disease 
disease tooke    tooke him which the Phisitions call [bulimia*], to say, a 
Brutus at    cormorant and unsatiable appetite to eate: by reason of the 
Dyrrachium    cold and paynes he had taken. This sicknes chaunceth 
    often, both to men and beasts, that travaile when it hath 
Why by snow    snowen: either bicause the naturall heate being retyred 
this hungry    into the inward parts of the body, by the coldnes of the 
disease taketh    ayer hardening the skinne, doth straight disgest and consume 
men that are    the meate: or els bicause a sharpe suttell wind comming 
wearied with    by reason of the snow when it is molten, doth pearce into 
travell.    the body, and driveth out the naturall heate which was cast 
    outward. For it seemeth, that the heate being quenched 
    with the cold, which it meeteth withall comming out of 
    the skinne of the body: causeth the sweates that follow 
    the dissease. But hereof we have spoken at large in other 
    places. Brutus being very faynt, and having nothing in his 
    campe to eate: his souldiers were compelled to goe to their 
    enemies, and comming to the gates of the citie, they prayed 
    the warders to help them to bread. When they heard in 
    what case Brutus was, they brought him both meate and 
Brutus thank-    drinke: in requitall whereof, afterwards when he wanne the 
fulness, and    citie, he did not onely intreate and use the Citizens thereof 
clemency.    curteously, but all the inhabitants of the citie also for their 
    sakes. Now, when Caius Antonius was arrived in the citie 
    of Apollonia, he sent unto the souldiers thereabouts to come 
    unto him. But when he understoode that they went all to 
    Brutus, and furthermore, that the Citizens of Apollonia did 
    favor him much: he then forsooke that citie, and went unto 
    the citie of Buthrotus, but yet he lost three of his enseignes 
    by the way, that were slayne every man of them. Then he 
    sought by force to winne certaine places of strength about 
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