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Not a few, such as the young Lucius Cinna, joined the movement; others, however, followed the example of Gaius Caesar, who had returned home from Asia on receiving the accounts of the death of Sulla and of the plans of Lepidus, but after becoming more accurately acquainted with the character of the leader and of the movement prudently withdrew.
'Yet is there some taste in the ceiling, said Glaucus, who was in a mood to be pleased with everything; pointing to the stars which studded the roof. Lepidus shrugged his shoulders, but was too languid to reply.
'I had hoped said Glaucus, in a melancholy tone, 'to have procured you some oysters from Britain; but the winds that were so cruel to Caesar have forbid us the oysters. 'Are they in truth so delicious? asked Lepidus, loosening to a yet more luxurious ease his ungirdled tunic. 'Why, in truth, I suspect it is the distance that gives the flavor; they want the richness of the Brundusium oyster.
Without further concerning himself about the senate and the formalities of state law, he handed over the temporary administration of the capital to the praetor Marcus Aemilius Lepidus as city-prefect, and made the requisite arrangements for the administration of the provinces that obeyed him and the continuance of the war.
As soon as Lepidus was driven from Italy, he made his escape into Sardinia, where he fell sick and died of vexation, not at the state of affairs, as they say, but from finding some writing by which he discovered that his wife had committed adultery.
Can any one not regard with horror the young Consul, as he sat there in the privacy of the island, with Antony on one side and Lepidus on the other, and then in the first days of his youth, with the down just coming on his cheeks, sending forth his edict for slaughtering the old friend of the Republic?
A singular thing it was to see the dainty and fastidious Lepidus, whom in a banquet a ray of daylight seemed to blind whom in the bath a breeze of air seemed to blast in whom Nature seemed twisted and perverted from every natural impulse, and curdled into one dubious thing of effeminacy and art a singular thing was it to see this Lepidus, now all eagerness, and energy, and life, patting the vast shoulders of the gladiators with a blanched and girlish hand, feeling with a mincing gripe their great brawn and iron muscles, all lost in calculating admiration at that manhood which he had spent his life in carefully banishing from himself.
'And Spuraena; and Caius Mutius, who wrote three epics in a year could Horace do that, or Virgil either said Lepidus. 'Those old poets all fell into the mistake of copying sculpture instead of painting. Simplicity and repose that was their notion; but we moderns have fire, and passion, and energy we never sleep, we imitate the colors of painting, its life, and its action. Immortal Fulvius!
Octavius was elected consul, and began negotiations with Antony and Lepidus, which resulted in the three new masters constituting themselves a triumvirate the Second Triumvirate to settle the affairs of the Commonwealth. They divided the powers of government, and a partition of territory was made between them.
And the day before he died, the conversation at supper, in the house of Marcus Lepidus, turning upon what was the most eligible way of dying, he gave his opinion in favour of a death that is sudden and unexpected. LXXXVIII. He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was ranked amongst the Gods, not only by a formal decree, but in the belief of the vulgar.
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