Their earliest care was to punish those whom they had formerly marked for vengeance.

Horten'sius, Dru'sus, and Quintil'ius Va'rus, all men of the first rank in the commonwealth, either killed themselves or were slain.

A senator and his son were ordered to cast lots for their lives, but both refused; the father voluntarily gave himself up to the executioner, and the son stabbed himself before his face.

Another begged to have the rites of burial after his death: to which Augus'tus replied, "that he would soon find a grave in the vultures that would devour him." 4.

But chiefly the people lamented to see the head of Brutus sent to Rome to be thrown at the foot of Caesar's statue.