Hunc igitur spectemus. Hoc propositum sit nobis exemplum. QUINTIL. INSTIT. 1. x. I. A NEW EDITION. VOL. III. PRINTED FOR VERNOR London: AND HOOD, J. CUTHELL, J. WALKER, OTRIDGE AND SON, LACKINGTON, ALLEN AND CO., OGILVY AND SON, R. FAULDER, R. LEA, J. NUNN, J. CUMMING, AND E. JEFFREY : By J. Moir, Edinburgh. THE LIFE OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. SECTION IX. A. Urb. 709. Cic. 63. Coss.-M. Antonius. P. Cornelius Dolabella CICERO was present at the death of Cæsar in the Se nate; "where he had the pleasure," he tells us, " to "see the tyrant perish as he deserved *. By this accident he was freed at once from all subjection to a superior, and all the uneasiness and indignity of managing a power, which every moment could oppress him. He was now without competition the first citizen in Rome; the first in that credit and authority both with the senate and people, which illustrious merit and services will necessarily give in a free city. The conspirators considered him as such, and reckoned upon him as their sure friend: for they had no sooner finished their work, than " Brutus, lifting up "his bloody dagger, called out upon him by name, to * Quid mihi attulerat ista domini mutatio, præter lætitiam, quam oculis cepi, justo interitu Tyranni? Ad Att. 14. 14. VOL. III. A * |