2Besides, he called the senate together and spoke in favour of amnesty and a distribution of provinces among Brutus and Cassius and their partisans, and the senate ratified this proposal, and voted that no change should be made in what Caesar had done.18Cf. the Caesar, lxvii. 4; the Brutus, xix. 3. So Antony went out of the senate the most illustrious of men; for he was thought to have put an end to civil war, and to have handled matters involving great difficulty and extraordinary confusion in a most prudent and statesmanlike manner.
Notes
[18] Cf. the Caesar, lxvii. 4; the Brutus, xix. 3.