Dio 41.17.3

Roman History 41.17.3

Author
Cassius Dio
Translator
Earnest Cary

Roman History

41.17.3

Cassius Dio

translated by Earnest Cary

3In the case of Caesar’s other projects also, as I have often stated, he both brought them to vote and carried them out in the same fashion, under the name of democracy, inasmuch as the majority of them were introduced by Antony, but with the substance of despotism. Both Caesar and Pompey called their opponents enemies of their country and declared that they themselves were fighting for the public interests, whereas each alike was really ruining those interests and advancing merely his own private ends.