But neither Valerii nor Fabii stand in the forefront of his oligarchy. […] Caesar would have been the first to admit it: he needed neither the name nor the diadem. […] Again, ‘Sallust’ (Ad Caesarem 2, 9, 3) is neither just nor relevant when he observes: ‘unius tamen M. […] Brutus might well have been a Caesarian neither he nor Caesar were predestined partisans of Pompeius. […] Their employment in the first place for his own political interests calls neither for surprise nor for excuse.