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Three Dissertations : ; One On the Characters of Augustus, Horace and Agrippa, With a Comparison between His two Ministers ... / by the Abbe de Vertot ... to which is added Some Reflections ... by the Earl of Shaftsbury. Another On the Gallery of Verres / by the Abbe Fraguier, in which many excellent Pieces of ancient Statuary, Sculpture and Painting are described. A Third On the Nature, Origin and Use of Masks, in theatrical Representations among the Ancients. by Mr. Boindin ... / [translated by George Turnbull]
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The two Consuls marched. Augustus join’d thenfwith his Troops, and M. Anthony losing a Battle wasforc’d to raise the Siege. Augustus demanded and ob-tained the Consulship ; but he did not keep it long.The Army os M. Anthony being reinsorc’d by the Ac-cession os the Troops under Lepidus , he threatned Au-gustus that he would join the Conspirators *. And theyoung Cæsar alarmed at the Thoughts of a League hewas unable to resist, proposed a Reconciliation, joiningtheir Forces and sharing the sovereign Power's. Butbeing jealous one of the other, they associated Lepidusto them, not to be Head of the Party, but rather to bean Arbitrator between them, if any Differences shouldhappen.

This is the famous Triumvirate, whose monstrousCruelties strike with Horrors. These three Heads enrich’d

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* Velleius c. 65.-Denuntiaretque fe cum Bruto Casiioque, juncturum

vires suas, si Cæsar ejus aspernaretur concordiam ; diceretque plus Cæsarem pa- /iris, quam se amici ultioni debere.

Igitur unita potentiæ societas, & hortantibus orantibusque exercitibus,&c. Ibidem.

•f Plutarch tells us, that OSiavius , when he saw Cicero's whole Design andEndeavour was to restore the Commonwealth, sent certain Friends to Anto-nius > to propose a Reconciliation.

% See what even Velleius that Flatterer and Time-server says on thisHead, 1 . 2 . c. 67. Hujus totius temporis fortunam nec deflere quidern quifquamsatis digne potuit , adeo nemo ver bis exprimere pot eft. The Remark he addsdeserves Attention. Id tamen notandum eft ; fuifje in proscriptos uxorumfidemsummam , libertorum mediam, servorum aliquam, filiorum nullam. Adeo difficilis -est hominibus utcumque conceptæ spei mora. See Appian. with respectto OStavius Sueton speaking of the Proscriptions fays. In quo reftititquidem aliquandiu Collegis , ne qua fieret profcriptio , fed incæptum utroque -acerbius exercuit. Dion throws all upon his Collegues, L. 47. p. 377. SoVelleius , repugnanttCœfare , fed frustra adverfus duos inftauratum Sullaniexempli malum, profcriptio. See with what Indignation even he speaks of theProscription of Cicero , and the fine Character he gives of him, L. 2. 66.Plutarch fays the Government of the Triumviri grew odious to the Romans

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