Without the sincere and patriotic co-operation of the governing class, the attempt would be all in vain, the mere creation of arbitrary power, doomed to perish in violence. […] Though Caesar was slain as a tyrant by honourable and patriotic citizens, the acta of the Dictator and even his last projects, as yet unpublished were to have the force of law. […] 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. […] But this was no time for an ideal and patriotic appeal. […] Piso, a patriotic Roman, did not abandon all care for his country and lapse into timorous inactivity under the imminent threat of civil war or during the contest.