Brutus
Plutarch
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. VI. Perrin, Bernadotte, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1918.
ἀλλὰ Πομπήϊον μὲν, ὥσπερ εἴκασε Βροῦτος, Αἰγύπτῳ προσβαλόντα τὸ πεπρωμένον ἐδέξατο. Καίσαρα δὲ καὶ πρὸς Κάσσιον ἐπράϋνε Βροῦτος.
καὶ δὴ καὶ τῷτῶν Λιβύων βασιλεῖ προηγορῶν μὲν ἡττᾶτο τοῦ μεγέθους τῶν κατηγοριῶν, δεόμενος δὲ καὶ παραιτούμενος περὶ τούτου[*](περὶ τούτου transposed by Bekker, after Vögelin, to the following sentence, between αὐτοῦ and λέγοντος (as soon as he heard him speaking in his behalf).) πολλὴν αὐτῷ διέσωσε τῆς ἀρχῆς,