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So again, as soon as he had begun the war, we see what 

 Cicero saith of him, Alter (meaning of Caesar) nan recusat, 

 sed quodammodo postulat, ut (ut esf) sic appelktur tyrannus. 

 So we may see in a letter of Cicero to Atticus, that 

 Augustus Caesar, in his very entrance into affairs, when 

 he was a darling of the senate, yet in his harangues to 

 the people would swear, Ita 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 

 Caesar 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, Occultior non metior, wherein Sal- 

 lust concurreth, Ore probo, ammo 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 Caesar 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, Et cum artibus mariti 

 simulations filii bene composita : for surely the continual 



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