[Footnote 96: From the "Life of Julius Cæsar." Translated by North.]
[Footnote 97: Marcus Junius Brutus had originally been an adherent of
Pompey, but after the battle at Pharsalia in 48 B.C., went over to
Cæsar, and in 46 became governor of Cisalpine Gaul.]
[Footnote 98: Gaius Cassius Longinus, general and politician, had won
distinction in the Parthian war of 53-51 B.C.]
[Footnote 99: Lucius Junius Brutus under whose leadership the Tarquins
were expelled and the republic established in 510 B.C.]
[Footnote 100: Brutus first married Claudia, daughter of Appius
Claudius, who was Consul in 54 B.C. It was probably in 55 B.C.,
after Cato's death, that he put away Claudia (for which he was much
blamed), and married Porcia, daughter of Cato. Portia was the widow of
Bibulus, a colleague of Cæsar in the Consulship of 59 B.C.]
[Footnote 101: Daughter of Calpurnius Piso Cæsonius and married to
Cæsar in 59 B.C. She was his second wife, Pompeia, a relative of
Pompey the Great, being the first.]
[Footnote 102: Mark Antony was then about forty-four years old. He had
commanded the left wing of Cæsar at Pharsalia and became Consul in
44.]