. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. was a bitter .commen-tary upon the words of Brutus, who, as he drew his daggerfrom the body of Caesar, turned to Cicero and exclaimed: Rejoice, O Father of your Country, for Rome is could not be free, the republic could not be reestab-lished, because the virtues of the ancient Romans had died THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION. 305 out from among their descendants — had been overwhelmedby the rising tide of vice, selfishness, sensuality, and irre-ligion that had set in upon the capital. To what lengths Antony would hav
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. was a bitter .commen-tary upon the words of Brutus, who, as he drew his daggerfrom the body of Caesar, turned to Cicero and exclaimed: Rejoice, O Father of your Country, for Rome is could not be free, the republic could not be reestab-lished, because the virtues of the ancient Romans had died THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION. 305 out from among their descendants — had been overwhelmedby the rising tide of vice, selfishness, sensuality, and irre-ligion that had set in upon the capital. To what lengths Antony would have gone in his careerof usurpation it is difficult to say, had he not been opposedat this point byGaius Octavius, theyoung grandnephewof Julius Caesar, andthe one whom hehad named in hiswill as his heir andsuccessor. Uponthe senate declaringin favor of Octa-vius, civil war im-mediately broke outbetween him andAntony and Lepi-dus. After severalindecisive battlesbetween the forcesof the rival competi-tors, Octavius pro-posed to Antonyand Lepidus a rec-onciliation. The. Octavius as a Youth. (From a bust in the Vatican Museum.) three met on a small island in the Rhenus, a little streamin Northern Etruria, and there formed a league known asthe Second Triumvirate (43 ). The plans of the triumvirs were infamous. They first 306 ROME AS A REPUBLIC. divided the world among themselves : Octavius was tohave the government of the West; Antony, that of theEast; while to Lepidus fell the control of Africa. Ageneral proscription, such as had marked the coming to
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