Relate the circumstances of their interview?
25.

What happened to Brutus in the mean time?
26.

How did he attempt to gain intelligence, and what followed his disappointment?
27.

Relate the manner of his death?
SECTION VI.
But anxious cares already seized the queen; She fed within her veins a flame unseen: The hero's valour, acts, and birth, inspire Her soul with love, and fan the secret fire .-- _Dryden_.
1.

From the moment of Brutus's death, the Trium'viri began to act as sovereigns, and to divide the Roman dominions among them as their own by right of conquest.2.However, though there were apparently three who participated all power, yet, in fact, only two were actually possessed of it, since Lep'idus was admitted at first merely to curb the mutual jealousy of Antony and Augustus, and was possessed neither of interest in the army, nor authority among the people.3.