The last year of Cicero’s life, full of glory and eloquence no doubt, was ruinous to the Roman People. […] ‘Caesarem se, non regem esse. ’3 Beyond doubt the Dictator’s powers were as considerable as those of a monarch. […] No doubt: the propertied classes looked with distrust upon the reform programmes of Roman tribunes and hated the Roman poor. […] No doubt Antonius desired them to be away from Rome: a temporary absence at least might have been admitted by the friends of Brutus, to salvage political concord and public order. […] At last, after long doubt and hesitation, Cicero set out for Greece.