Exceptions had been made before in favour of other dynasts; and Caesar asserted both legal and moral rights to preferential treatment. […] A jury carefully selected, with moral support from soldiers of Pompeius stationed around the court, would bring in the inevitable verdict. […] Though in different words, Virgil, Horace and Livy tell the same tale and point the same moral. 1 Yet speculation cannot be debarred from playing round the high and momentous theme of the last designs of Caesar the Dictator. […] The policy which he adopted in the East and his association with the Queen of Egypt were vulnerable to the moral and patriotic propaganda of his rival. […] Yielding to this moral suasion, Antonius agreed to a formal and public reconciliation with Octavianus.