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39“And more advantageous for your party.”—“Parties,” you senseless man, is a suitable expression for the forum, or the senate house. You have declared a wicked war against your country; you are attacking Mutina; you are besieging the consul elect; two consuls are carrying on war against you; and with them, Cæsar, the proprætor; all Italy is armed against you; and then do you call yours “a party,” instead of a revolt from the republic? “To seek to avenge the death of Trebonius, or that of Cæsar.” We have avenged Trebonius sufficiently by pronouncing Dolabella a public enemy. The death of Cæsar is best defended by oblivion and silence. But take notice what his object is.—When he thinks that the death of Cæsar ought to be revenged, he is threatening with death, not those only who perpetrated that action, but those also who were not indignant at it.
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