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 328 MARCUS BRUTUS. commanded by one of his friends, he went to meet him about Carystus. Finding him there, and having per- suaded him to deUver up the ships, he made a more than usually splendid entertainment, for it happened also to be his birthday. Now when they came to drink, and were filling their cups with hopes for victory to Brutus and liberty to Rome, Brutus, to animate them the more, called for a larger bowl, and holding it in his hand, on a sudden upon no occasion or forethought pronounced aloud this verse : — But fate ray death and Leto's son liave wrought.* And some writers add that in the last battle which he fought at Philippi the word that he gave to his soldiers was Apollo, and from thence conclude that this sudden unaccountable exclamation of his was a presage of the overthrow that he suffered there. Antistiiis, the commander of these ships, at his parting gave him fifty thousand myriads of the money that he was conveying to Italy ; and all the soldiers yet remaining of Pompey's army, who after their general's defeat wan- dered about Thessaly, readily and joyfully flocked together to join him. Besides this, he took from Cinna five hundred horse that he was carrying to Dolabella into Asia. After that, he sailed to Demetrias, and there seized a great quantity of arms, that had been provided by the com- mand of the deceased Caesar for the Parthian war, and were now to be sent to Antony. Then Macedonia waa put into his hands and delivered up by Hortensius the praetor, and all the kings and potentates round about came and offered their services. So when news was mother of Apollo, for which Latona part of the dying words of Pa- li the Latin form. The verse is troclus.
 * Leto is the Greek name of the from the sixteenth Ihad (849),