Brutus

But as for Pompey, he put in at Egypt, as Brutus conjectured, and there met his doom; as for Caesar, however, Brutus tried to soften him towards Cassius also.

He also served as advocate for the king of Africa,[*](Probably an error, either of Plutarch’s, or of the MSS. In 47 B.C. Brutus pleaded unsuccessfully before Caesar the cause of Deiotarus, king of Galatia. Coraës would read Γαλατῶν for Λιβύων.) and though he lost the case, owing to the magnitude of the accusations against his client, still, by supplications and entreaties in his behalf he saved much of his kingdom for him.

And it is said that Caesar, when he first heard Brutus speak in public, said to his friends: I know not what this young man wants, but all that he wants he wants very much.[*](Cf. Cicero ad Att. xiv. 1, 2. )

For the weight of his character, and the fact that no one found it easy to make him listen to appeals for favour, but that he accomplished his ends by reasoning and the adoption of noble principles, made his efforts, whithersoever directed, powerful and efficacious.