Identifier: storyofromefrome00macg (find matches)
Title: The story of Rome, from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, told to boys and girls
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Mary
Subjects: Rome -- History
Publisher: London, Edinburgh : T. C. & E. C. Jack
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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you had brought him alive, but of this I am sure, it is betterto have such men as Lucilius our friends than our enemies.From that day Antony and Lucilius were friends. Brutus meanwhile had ridden on until he reached a littlestream, and here, sheltered by steep cliffs he sat down torest. His heart was sad, for many of his friends were slain.He murmured the long hst of their names, sighing heavilyas he did so. Hour after hour passed, and his people grew anxiouslest the enemy should overtake them, and they urged Brutusto fly. Yes indeed we must fly, answered the stricken general, but not with our feet, but with our hands. Then he wentaside with only his friend Strato, and flinging himself uponthe point of his sword, he died. Antony, when he found the dead body of Brutus, orderedit to be covered with a beautiful purple mantle of his own. A soldier, too full of greed to show reverence to the dead,dared to steal the mantle. Antony did not rest until thethief was discovered and put to death.
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