Plut. Caes. 30.3

Life of Caesar 30.3

Author
Plutarch
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin

Life of Caesar

30.3

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

3And when the consuls put the question whether Pompey should dismiss his soldiers, and again whether Caesar should, very few senators voted for the first, and all but a few for the second; but when Antony again demanded that both should give up their commands, all with one accord assented. Scipio, however, made violent opposition, and Lentulus the consul cried out that against a robber there was need of arms, not votes; whereupon the senate broke up, and the senators put on the garb of mourning in view of the dissension.