Plut. Brut. 20.2

Life of Brutus 20.2

Author
Plutarch
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin

Life of Brutus

20.2

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

2For by sparing Antony’s life as he had done he incurred the charge of raising up against the conspirators a bitter and formidable foe; and now, in allowing Caesar’s funeral rites to be conducted as Antony demanded, he committed a fatal error. For, in the first place, when it was found that the will of Caesar gave to every single Roman seventy-five drachmas, and left to the people his gardens beyond the Tiber, where now stands a temple of Fortune, an astonishing kindliness and yearning for Caesar seized the citizens;