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Such was Cassius; but Brutus was exhorted and incited to the undertaking by many arguments from his comrades, and by many utterances and writings from his fellow citizens. For instance, on the statue of his ancestor, the Brutus who overthrew the power of the kings, there was written:
‘O that we had thee now, Brutus!’ and
‘O that Brutus were alive!’ Besides, the praetorial tribunal of Brutus himself was daily found covered with such writings as these:
‘Brutus, art thou asleep?’ and
‘Thou art not really Brutus.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
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