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| and sent it to the citie of Thassos, fearing least his funerals | MARCUS |
| within the campe should cause great disorder. Then he | BRUTUS |
| called his souldiers together, and did encorage them againe. | |
| And when he saw that they had lost all their cariage, which | |
| they could not brooke well: he promised everie man of them | |
| two thowsand Drachmas in recompence. After his souldiers | |
| had heard his Oration, they were al of them pretily cheered | |
| againe, wondering much at his great liberalitie, and waited | |
| upon him with great cries when he went his way, praising | |
| him, for that he only of the foure Chieftaines, was not | |
| overcome in battell. And to speake the trueth, his deedes | |
| shewed that he hoped not in vaine to be conqueror. For | |
| with fewe legions, he had slaine and driven all them away, | |
| that made head against him: and yet if all his people had | |
| fought, and that the most of them had not outgone their | |
| enemies to runne to spoyle their goods: surely it was like | |
| enough he had slaine them all, and had left never a man of | |
| them alive. There were slaine of Brutus side, about eight | The number |
| thowsand men, counting the souldiers slaves, whom Brutus | of men slaine, |
| called Brigas: and of the enemies side, as Messala wryteth, | at the battel |
| there were slaine as he supposeth, more then twise as many | of Philippes. |
| moe. Wherefore they were more discoraged then Brutus, | |
| untill that verie late at night, there was one of Cassius men | |
| called Demetrius, who went unto Antonius, and caried his | |
| maisters clothes, whereof he was stripped not long before, | |
| and his sword also. This encoraged Brutus enemies, and | |
| made them so brave, that the next morning betimes they | |
| stoode in battell ray againe before Brutus. But on Brutus | |
| side, both his campes stoode wavering, and that in great | |
| daunger. For his owne campe being full of prisoners, | |
| required a good garde to looke unto them: and Cassius | |
| campe on the other side tooke the death of their Captaine | |
| verie heavilie, and beside, there was some vile grudge | |
| betwene them that were overcomen, and those that did | |
| overcome. For this cause therefore Brutus did set them | |
| in battell ray, but yet kept him selfe from geving battell. | |
| Now for the slaves that were prisoners, which were a great | |
| number of them, and went and came to and fro amongst the | |
| armed men, not without suspicion: he commaunded they | |
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