Kitap 4
17.134
Once when he was about to cross from Asia into Europe with his army, and while he was awake at night and the light was burning low, he beheld an apparition of extraordinary form standing near him, and when he boldly asked who of men or gods it might be, the spectre answered, I am thy evil genius, Brutus. I shall appear to thee again at Philippi.There is a noteworthy similarity of Greek words between Plutarch and Appian in relating the conversation between Brutus and the spectre, viz., Plutarch: Τίς ποτʼ ὤν, εἶπεν, ἀνθρώπων ἢ θεῶν ἢ τί βουλόμενος ἥκεις ὡς ἡμᾶς; Ὑποφθέγγεται δὲ αὐτῷ τὸ φάσμα, Ὁ σὸς, ὧ Βροῦτε, δαίμων κακός· ὄψει δέ με περὶ Φιλίππους. Appian: καὶ πυθέσθαι μὲν εὐθαρσῶς, ὅστις ἀνθρώπων ἢ θεῶν εἴη· τὸ δὲ φάσμα εἰπεῖν, Ὁ σὸς, ὦ Βροῦτε, δαίμων κακός· ὀφθήσομαι δέ σοι καὶ ἐν Φιλίπποις And it is said that it did appear to him before the last battle. When the soldiers were going out to the fight an Ethiopian met them in front of the gates, and as they considered this a bad omen they immediately cut him in pieces. It was due to divine interposition, no doubt, that Cassius gave way to despair without reason after a drawn battle, and that Brutus was forced from his policy of wise delay to an engagement with men who were pressed by hunger, while he himself had supplies in abundance and the command of the sea, so that his calamity proceeded rather from his own troops than from the enemy. Although they had participated in many engagements, they never received any hurt in battle, but both became the slayers of themselves, as they had been of Cae sar. Such was the punishment that overtook Cassius and Brutus.
