He sometimes forgets that awkward fact. […] Doubt about the date need not prejudice the fact. […] Vatinius from Reate is recorded, in fact the grandfather of Caesar’s adherent (Cicero, De nat. deorum 2, 6; Val. […] Yet even now, despite the deplorable fact that the Republicans did not dare to show themselves before the Roman People, all was not lost. […] From his career and station, from the authority of the office he held, the predominance of Antonius was a given and inescapable fact.