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he had condemned to die; £ff qui fpeBalor crat amovetidus, eum 

 ipfiim fortuna exoBorem fiipplicli dedit ----- quum inter omnc 

 tempiis pater ^ vulttis ^ os ejus JpeBaculo ejjet. 



But what appearance in the countenance of Brutus fo ftronglv 

 interefted the attention of the beholders ? They furely faw fome- 

 thing more than the expreffion of a father's heart wounded by 

 the fufferings of his fons. They traced a fevere internal conflidt ; 

 they obferved vifibly chara6tered in his face and gefture the vigo- 

 rous but inefFedual efforts of nature to burft the reftraints with 

 which ftern republican juftice had fettered her yearnings : Emi- 

 nent e patrio anitno inter publico pana minifterium. 



