Book CXX.
Caesar, the consul, introduced a law to hold an inquiry into the case of those by whose
instigation his father had been murdered and Marcus Brutus, Caius Cassius, and Decimus
Brutus having been tried by this law, were condemned, though absent. When Asinius Pollio
and Munatius Plancus, having also joined their forces to those of Antonius had increased
his strength, and when Decimus Brutus, to whom the senate had given orders to pursue
Antony, being deserted by the legions under his command, had fled, he was killed by
Capenus Sequanus, by order of Antonius, into whose hands he had fallen. Caius Caesar
became reconciled to Antonius and Lepidus, so that he and Lepidus and Antony formed a
triumvirate for the administration of the republic for five years, and that they should
proscribe each his particular enemies, in which proscription were included very many of
the equestrian order, and one hundred and thirty senators; among whom were Lucius Paulus,
the brother of Lepidus, Lucius Caesar, Antony's uncle, and Marcus Tullius Cicero, whose
head and right hand were placed on the rostrum, when he was murdered in his sixty-third
year by Popilius, a legionary soldier. This book also contains an account of the
transactions of Brutus in Greece.