M. etiam Antonii animus talis humanitatis intellectu non caruit: M. enim Bruti corpus liberto suo sepeliendum tradidit, quoque honoratius cremaretur, inici ei suum paludamentum iussit, iacentem hostem deposito aestimans odio; cumque interceptum a liberto paludamentum comperisset, ira percitus protinus in eum animadvertit, hac ante praefatione usus: quid? tu ignorasti cuius tibi viri sepulturam commisissem? fortem piamque eius victoriam Philippi<i> campi libenter viderunt, sed ne ista quidem generosissimae indignationis verba inviti audierunt.
Nor was the mind of Mark Antony without understanding of such humanity. For he gave M. Brutus body to a freedman of his own for burial and to make his cremation more honourable ordered that Brutus generals cloak be spread over him, assessing his prostrate enemy with hatred laid aside. And learning that the cloak had been stolen by the freedman, he flew into a rage and punished him immediately, prefacing the act with these words: What? Did you not know who it was whose burial I entrusted to you? The plains of Philippi gladly beheld his brave and pious victory, but not loth did they hear those words of generous indignation.
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