Editing Battle of Philippi (section)

==Quotations==
[[Plutarch]] famously reported that Brutus experienced a vision of a ghost a few months before the battle. One night he saw a huge and shadowy form appearing in front of him; when he asked, "What and whence art thou?" it answered "Thy evil spirit, Brutus: I shall see thee at Philippi." He again met the ghost the night before the battle. This episode is one of the most famous in [[Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]''.

[[Cassius Dio]] reports that at the last Brutus quoted from a Greek tragedy: "O wretched Virtue, thou wert but a name, and yet I worshipped thee as real indeed; but now, it seems, thou were but fortune's slave."<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Cassius Dio]] |title=Roman History |at=47.49 |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/47*.html#49}}</ref>

Augustus's own version of the Battle of Philippi was: "I sent into exile the murderers of my father, punishing their crimes with lawful tribunals; and afterwards, when they made war upon the Republic, I twice defeated them in battle."<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Augustus]] |title=[[Res Gestae Divi Augusti|Res Gestae]] |at=2 |lang=la |quote=Qui parentem meum [interfecer]un[t eo]s in exilium expuli iudiciis legitimis ultus eorum [fa]cin[us, e]t postea bellum inferentis rei publicae vici b[is a]cie}}</ref>