When these members of Cicero were brought to Rome, Antony was
holding an assembly for the choice of public officers; and when he
heard it, and saw them, he cried out, "Now let there be an end of
our proscriptions." He commanded his head and hands to be fastened
up over the Rostra, where the orators spoke; a sight which the
Roman people shuddered to behold, and they believed they saw there
not the face of Cicero, but the image of Antony's own soul.
A long time after, Augustus, when visiting one of his daughter's
sons, found him with a book of Cicero's in his hand. The boy for
fear endeavored to hide it under his gown; but Caesar took it from
him, and turning over a great part of the book standing, gave it
to him again, and said, "My child, this was a learned man, and a
lover of his country." And immediately after he had vanquished
Antony, being then consul, he made Cicero's son his colleague in
the office; and, under that consulship, the senate took down all
the statues of Antony, and abolished all the other honors that had
been given him, and decreed that none of that family should
thereafter bear the name of Marcus; and thus the final acts of the
punishment of Antony were, by the divine powers, devolved upon the
family of Cicero.
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