| LIVES OF THE NOBLE | | |
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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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