Bru. Farewell, good Strato. [Runs on his sword.] Cæsar, now be still:
I kill’d not thee with half so good a will.[Dies.]”
In the presence of the conquerors Strato then declares,—
“The conquerors can but make a fire of him;
For Brutus only overcame himself,
And no man else hath honour by his death.
Lucil. So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,
That thou hast proved Lucilius’ saying true.”
And we must mark how finely the dramatist represents the victors at Philippi testifying to the virtues of their foe (l. 68),—
“Antony. This was the noblest Roman of them all: