. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. - of the conqueror. But revolutions nearlyalways call forth conspii*-acies ; the broken swordeasily becomes a dagger:and some of those whomvictory has thrown at thefeet of the master remainthere only the better tomark the place where theycan strike. The Egyptianexpedition was scarcely fin-ished when Marcus Lepidus,son of the triumvir, andnephew of Brutus by hismother Junia, conspired to assassinate Octavius on his return and re-establish the , who commanded the city guards, easily sa
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. - of the conqueror. But revolutions nearlyalways call forth conspii*-acies ; the broken swordeasily becomes a dagger:and some of those whomvictory has thrown at thefeet of the master remainthere only the better tomark the place where theycan strike. The Egyptianexpedition was scarcely fin-ished when Marcus Lepidus,son of the triumvir, andnephew of Brutus by hismother Junia, conspired to assassinate Octavius on his return and re-establish the , who commanded the city guards, easily saw through theill-contrived schemes of the imprudent youth. He kept watch withconsummate dissimulation upon the intrigues of Lepidus ; he entan-gled the conspirator in unseen meshes ; then suddenly, without 1 A statue found at IJome, and now in the Vatican (Museo Pio-Clementlno, Ilall of theSarcophagi, No. 559).. THE YOUNG OCTAVIUS. 46 THE TRIUMVIRATES AND THE REVOLUTION, 79 TO 30. noise or tumult, seized him and destroyed this germ of freshtroubles. The culprits wife, Servilia, killed herself by swallowingburning coals ; his mother, accused of encouraging his designs,was dragged to the tribunal of the consul ; and the elder Lepidus,to .-ave his wife, was seen to throw himself at the feet of thejudge. This judge was a senator whom Junias brother had for-
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