lie Carriage and Bebavkur of feveral Ro-
man Cititensy to their Profcrilri' Friends
and Relations. A Sart^. tf the^ Sol-
diers itgain/l ?\zncus.
A S no one can fufflciently lament tfie
•^^ Fortune of thefe Times, fo I will
not pretend to exprefs it in Words. But
I muft take Notice, that the Wives qC
the Pcofcribed difcovered a conftant Fi-
delity to their Husbands, the Freed Men?
and Servants a moderate one to their
Mafters, but the Children none at all to*
their Parents; fo difficult is it for Men to
wait for the IQliie of their Hopes, how

unfairly



1 54 ^^^ Roman Hi {lory
unfairly foe ver conceived. Lcaft any Thing
facred (hould be left, which might leifen
and detrad from ttieir Cruelty^ Antoniut
profcribed his Uncle L. defar, and Le-
fidus his Btothcv Pauilus ;, Piancus too had
Intereft enough to obtain that his Bro«
ther Plotius {hpnldbe profcribed. Thence
it was that the Solders who followed the
Chariot of Lepiius and Phncusy made ufe
of this Expr^flion among the Execrations
of the Citizens, as a common Jeft. * TAf
two ConfulSf infiead of triumphing opir thf

Gauls^ triumph over their Brothers.
^ « . » . • . . "•

. * tU Et^PnJpHt in thi Latin i /^ De, GermiiiiSi
npn lie Cilliit duo trictmphant ConfuTes : 71^* A-
CWKnttk-iffit €OffillrJn fbi Ambiguity tfthemrd Ger-
manis, vbick CMntiot vftM h frefsrvtd im umLsn^
g«»S*, Germanls not being s prifer IJtme^ ht i>
tfudtd tofignify BrQChcm.
CHAR



cfVdkius Patercultw. 155

C H A P. LXyill.
7}}e ABionsand CharaBer of Marcus Cae-
\iuSy and Mild. The great Lenity and
Moderation of Caefar, in the Punijbment
of thofe that had abufed him.
