ar, who had
never before acknowledged Brutus to be his son, should make so unnecessary
an avowal, at the moment of his death. Exclusively of this objection, the
apostrophe seems too verbose, both for the suddenness and urgency of the
occasion. But this is not all. Can we suppose that Caesar, though a
perfect master of Greek, would at such a time have expressed himself in
that language, rather than in Latin, his familiar tongue, and in which he
spoke with peculiar elegance? Upon the whole, the probability is, that
the words uttered by Caesar were, Et tu Brute! which, while equally
expressive of astonishment with the other version, and even of tenderness,
are both more natural, and more emphatic.]

[Footnote 98: Men' me servasse, ut essent qui me perderent?]

[Footnote 99: The Bulla, generally made of gold, was a hollow globe,
which boys wore upon their breast, pendant from a string or ribbon put
round the neck. The sons of freedmen and poor citizens used globes of
leather.]

[Footnote 100: Josephus frequently mentions the benefits conferred on his
countrymen by Julius Caesar. Antiq. Jud. xiv. 14, 15, 16.]

[Footnote 101: Appian informs us that it was burnt by the people in their
fury, B. c. xi. p. 521.]

[Footnote 102: Suetonius particularly refers to the conspirators, who
perished at the battle of Philippi, or in the three years which
intervened. The survivors were included in the reconciliation of
Augustus, Antony, and Pompey, A.U.C. 715.]

[Footnote 103: Suetonius alludes to Brutus and Cassius, of whom this is
related by Plutarch and Dio.]

[Footnote 104: For observations on Dr. Thomson's Essays appended to
Suetonius's History of Julius Caesar, and the succeeding Emperors, see the
Preface to this volume.]

[Footnote 105: He who has a devoted admiration of Cicero, may be sure
that he has made no slight proficiency himself.]

[Footnote 106: A town in the ancient Volscian territory, now called
Veletra. It stands on the verge of the Pontine Marshes, on the road to
Naples.]

[Footnote 107: Thurium was a territory in Magna Graecia, on the coast,
near Tarentum.]

[Footnote 108: Argentarius; a banker, one who dealt in exchanging money,
as well as lent his own funds at interest to borrowers. As a class, they
possessed great wealth, and were persons of consideration in Rome at this
period.]

[Footnote 109: Now Laricia, or Riccia, a town of the Campagna di Roma, on
the Appian Way, about ten m