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So again, as soon as he had begun the war, we see what 
Cicero saith of him, A/#r (meaning of Czesar) non recusat, 
sed guodammodo postulat, ut (ut est) ste appelletur tyrannus, 
So we may see in a letter of Cicero to Atticus, that 
Augustus Czesar, in his very entrance into affairs, when 
he was a darling of the senate, yet in his harangues to 
the people would swear, Jia parentis honores consequi liceat 
(which was no less than the tyranny), save that, to help 
it, he would stretch forth his hand towards a statua of 
Czesar’s that was erected in the place: and men laughed, 
and wondered, and said, Is it possible? or, Did you ever 
hear the like? and yet thought he meant no hurt; he did 
it so handsomely and ingenuously. And all these were 
prosperous: whereas Pompey, who tended to the same 
ends, but in a more dark and dissembling manner, as 
Tacitus saith of him, Occulttor non melior, wherein Sal- 
lust concurreth, Ore probo, animo inverecundo, made it his 
design, by infinite secret engines, to cast the state into 
an absolute anarchy and confusion, that the state mought 
cast itself into his arms for necessity and protection, and 
so the sovereign power be put upon him, and he never 
seen in it: and when he had brought it (as he thought) 
to that point, when he was chosen consul alone, as never 
any was, yet he could make no great matter of it, because 
men understood him not; but was fain in the end to go 
the beaten track of getting arms into his hands, by colour 
of the doubt of Czesar’s designs: so tedious, casual, and 
unfortunate are these deep dissimulations: . whereof it 
seemeth Tacitus made this judgement, that they were 
a cunning of an inferior form in regard of true policy; 
attributing the one to Augustus, the other to Tiberius; 
where, speaking of Livia, he saith, Z¢ cum aritbus maritd 
simulatione filit bene compostta: for surely the continual 
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