"Or his son, if he could be at home?"
He soon will be at home, believe me; for in a very few days he will enter on his home, and on his father's villas.
"Lastly, you declare that peace cannot be made unless I either allow
Brutus to quit Mutina, or supply him with corn."
It is others who say that: I say, that even if you were to do so, there never could be peace between this city and you.
"What? is this the opinion of those veteran soldiers, to whom as yet either course is open?"
I do not see that there is any course so open to them, as now to begin and attack that general whom they previously were so zealous and unanimous in defending.[54]
"Since you yourselves have sold yourselves for flatteries and poisoned gifts".
Are those men depraved and corrupted, who have been persuaded to pursue a most detestable enemy with most righteous war?
"But you say, you are bringing assistance to troops who are hemmed in. I have no objection to their being saved, and departing wherever you wish, if they only allow that man to be put to death who has deserved it."
How very kind of him! The soldiers availing themselves of the liberality of Antonius have deserted their general, and have fled in alarm to his enemy, and if it had not been for them, Dolabella, in offering the sacrifice which he did to the shade of his general, would not have been beforehand with Antonius in propitiating the spirit of his colleague by a similar offering.