After long wavering Pompeius chose at last to save the oligarchy. […] Caesar in truth was more conservative and Roman than many have fancied; and no Roman conceived of government save through an oligarchy. […] His colleague Piso thwarted that move, but was unable or unwilling to save the Caesarian C. […] In spring and summer the cause of ordered government was still not beyond hope: to save it, what better champion than a patriot who boasted never to have been a party politician? […] Then Octavianus urged Cicero to come to Rome, to save the State once again, and renew the memory of the glorious Nones of December. 2