Brutus and Cassius lie damned to this day by the futility of their noble deed and by the failure of their armies at Philippi; and the memory of Antonius is overwhelmed by the oratory of Cicero, by fraud and fiction, and by the catastrophe at Actium. […] It was possessed in abundance both by Caesar and by his bitter enemy, L. […] Prosecuted for peculations committed by his father, he was saved by Philippus, Hortensius and by the Marian leader Papirius Carbo (Cicero, Brutus 230; Val. […] Fides, libertas and amicitia were qualities valued by the governing class, by Caesar as by Brutus. […] Cannutius by name.