Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 11, 2025
The colonists already settled in the territory of Mutina, suddenly attacked, took refuge in the town.
And as this is the case, I give my vote for the proposition which I have made to you, O conscript fathers, being adopted by you. Decimus Brutus was in such distress in Mutina, that his friends began to be alarmed, fearing that, if he fell into the hands of Antonius, he would be treated as Trebonius had been.
But I suppose that a man who can bear the complaint of his son in law with indifference, will bear that of his friend with great equanimity. What a disgraceful day was yesterday to us! to us consulars, I mean. Are we to send ambassadors again? What? would he make a truce? Before the very face and eyes of the ambassadors he battered Mutina with his engines.
About the same time news arrived of a victory gained over Antonius at Mutina. Pansa was now on the point of joining Hirtius with four new legions, and Antonius endeavoured to surprise him on the road before he could effect that junction. A severe battle ensued, in which Hirtius came to Pansa's aid, and Antonius was defeated with great loss.
But what ignominy it is to be called away from Mutina, and at the same time to be forbidden to approach the city as if he were some fatal conflagration! what an opinion is this for the senate to have of a man! What?
He writes to Decimus at Mutina about this time a letter full of hope of hope which we can see to be genuine. "Recruits are being raised in all Italy if that can be called recruiting which is in truth a spontaneous rushing into arms of the entire population." He expects letters telling him what "our Hirtius" is doing, and what "my young Cæsar."
There are three roads to Mutina, a place which my mind longs to see, in order that I may behold as speedily as possible that pledge of freedom of the Roman people Decimus Brutus, in whose embrace I would willingly yield up my parting breath, when all my actions for the last many months, and all my opinions and propositions have resulted in the end which I proposed to myself.
The Senate declared a state of public danger. The philippics of Cicero had taken effect, and the Senate and the government were now opposed to Antonius, as the creator of a new revolution. The consuls crossed swords with Antonius at Forum Gallorum, and the consul Pansa fell, but success was with the government. Another success at Mutina favored the government party, which Octavius had joined.
He is warring against Decimus and besieging Mutina for no other purpose than to provide himself, by conquering and capturing them, with resources against us.
When this intelligence respecting the ambassadors was announced, and that Mutina and its garrison were in danger, Lucius Manlius, the praetor, inflamed with rage, led his army in haste to Mutina. There were then woods on both sides of the road, most of the country being uncultivated.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking